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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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