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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The conical, spiral, or otherwise shaped and chambered or septate internal skeleton of fossil cephalopods, contained in the anterior part of the cavity of a hollow hard structure called the guard or rostrum. It is homologous with the chambered shell of other cephalopods. See cut under
belemnite .
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- noun the thin conical chambered internal shell (either straight or curved) of a belemnite
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