belemnite

noun

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

Roots

belemnonbelemn- · Greek · dart, javelin ites-ite · Greek · mineral, fossil

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