Noun: belemnite
| Singular | belemnite |
| Plural | belemnites |
Sample Sentences
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In the universal decay this volatile substance had chanced to survive, perhaps through many thousands of centuries. It reminded me of a sepia painting I had once seen done from the ink of a fossil Belemnite that must have perished and become fossilized millions of years ago. [1895, H. G. Wells, chapter VIII, in The Time Machine:]
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The guts of fossilized marine reptiles are packed with belemnites, and it's been theorized that some prehistoric sharks even died from the overconsumption of heavy belemnite shell guards. [2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 101:]
Nouns inflected like belemnite
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Ancient Greek βέλεμνον (bélemnon)
3. Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.
4. Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.
5. Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)der.
6. Latin -ītēslbor.
7. French -iteder.
8. English -ite
9. English belemnite
10. From Ancient Greek βέλεμνον (bélemnon, “dart, arrow”) + English -ite.
Verbs referencing "belemnite"
Finnish Nouns
belemniitti, Polish Nouns
belemnit.