Definitions of belemnite
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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
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type of:
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fossil
the remains (or an impression) of a plant or animal that existed in a past geological age and that has been excavated from the soil
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fossil
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