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bel⋅em⋅nite

  [bel-uhm-nahyt]
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–noun Paleontology.
a conical fossil, several inches long, consisting of the internal calcareous rod of an extinct animal allied to the cuttlefish; a thunderstone.
Origin:
1640–50; < F bélemnite, equiv. to Gk bélemn(on) a dart (n. deriv. from base of bállein to throw) + F -ite -ite 1
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bel·em·nite   (běl'əm-nīt')   
n.  A cone-shaped, fossilized internal shell of any of an extinct genus of cephalopods related to the cuttlefish.

[New Latin belemnītēs, from Greek belemnon, dart; see gwelə- in Indo-European roots.]
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