Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The typical genus of the family Belemnitidæ.
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- noun Plural form of
belemnite .
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Examples
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The belemnites are the internal shells of a sort of cuttle-fish which swam about in enormous numbers in the seas whose sediment forms our modern lias, oolite, and gault.
Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873
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The 'belemnites' are picked up at the stream-mouths after freshets; but the people, like all others, call them 'lightning-stones' (_osráman-bo_) or _abonua_, simply axe.
To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Richard Francis Burton 1855
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The most abundant macrofossils of the Oxford Clay Formation are ammonites and belemnites.
Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006
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The most abundant macrofossils of the Oxford Clay Formation are ammonites and belemnites.
Life in the Oxford Clay sea Darren Naish 2006
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Other examples of invertebrate fossils include gastropods and belemnites.
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And they had dug out cone-shaped, jet black belemnites, which, in their make-believe stories, became fossil dinosaur teeth.
Day of the Dandelion Peter Pringle 2007
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The chambered shells called ammonites and belemnites, which are so characteristic of the period preceding the cretaceous, in like manner die with it.
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Ammone; of the Anomia ampulla in the L. occhio di Pavone, so called from the circular form of the fossils whichever way the section is made; of encrinites, belemnites, and starfish, showing white or red on
Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan
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Also beautiful jasper and fossils such as ammonites and belemnites.
The South of France—East Half C. B. Black
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For instance, among the mammalia the pachydermata, among the reptilia the salamander and newt, among the articulata the cephalopoda, are at present remarkably reduced; -- compare with the legions of ammonites and belemnites of the secondary period the small number of nautilus and cuttle-fish of the seas at the present day.
The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality Rudolf Schmid
bilby commented on the word belemnites
Such a useful word. I don't know how I survived all these years without anywhere to put my phragmocones.
May 9, 2008
pterodactyl commented on the word belemnites
Ha ha ha!
May 9, 2008