| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| belemnite |
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| SYLLABICATION: | bel·em·nite |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  b l  m-n t |
| NOUN: | A cone-shaped, fossilized internal shell of any of an extinct genus of cephalopods related to the cuttlefish. | | ETYMOLOGY: | New Latin belemnt s, from Greek belemnon, dart. See gwel- in Appendix I.
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