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belemnites

belemnites is the plural of belemnite.

Meaning of belemnite

Noun

belemnite (plural belemnites)

  1. Any member of the extinct order †Belemnitida of Mesozoic marine cephalopods, very similar in many ways to the modern squid and closely related to the modern cuttlefish.
    • In the universal decay this volatile substance had chanced to survive, perhaps through many thousands of centuries. It reminded me of a sepia painting I had once seen done from the ink of a fossil Belemnite that must have perished and become fossilized millions of years ago.1895, H. G. Wells, chapter VIII, in The Time Machine

Questions about belemnites

What is belemnites the plural of?
Belemnites is the plural of belemnite.

Words near belemnites in the dictionary

  1. belemnite
  2. belemnite battlefield
  3. belemnite battlefields
  4. belemnitellid
  5. belemnitellids
  6. belemnites
  7. belemnitic
  8. belemnoid
  9. belemnoids
  10. Belen
  11. belendorffite

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