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| bel·em·nite [ bélləm nt ] (plural bel·em·nites) |
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fossil shell: a fossilized cylinder-shaped internal shell of an extinct order of cephalopods common in the Mesozoic era
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| [Early 17th century. < modern Latin< Greek belemon "a dart"; from its shape] |
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