belemnite

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
belemnite /ˈbɛləmnʌɪt/

▶noun an extinct marine cephalopod mollusc with a bullet-shaped internal shell, typically found as fossils in deposits of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.

– origin C17: from mod. L. belemnites, based on Gk belemnon ‘dart’.

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