English noun: belemnite | |||
1. | belemnite (animal) 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 | ||
Broader (hypernym) | fossil | ||
Member meronym | Belemnitidae, family Belemnitidae | ||