Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as phragmacone.
Wiktionary
- n. The chambered portion of the shell of a cephalopod, divided by septa into camerae.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) The thin chambered shell attached to the anterior end of a belemnite.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the thin conical chambered internal shell (either straight or curved) of a belemnite
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chained_bear Usage on nucleus. "The chambered part of the shell in some cephalopods; esp. the conical chambered internal shell of a belemnite." (OED) Sep 8, 2008