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1. plural of belemnite n. a conical calcareous fossil tapering to a point at one end and with a conical cavity at the other end containing (when unbroken) a small chambered phragmocone from the shell of any of numerous extinct cephalopods of the family Belemnitidae Source: ecdict

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conical end belemnite calcareous cavity cephalopods chambered containing extinct family fossil numerous phragmocone plural point shell small tapering unbroken

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