belemnite

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any member of the extinct order †Belemnitida of Mesozoic marine cephalopods, very similar in many ways to the modern squid and closely related to the modern cuttlefish.
    — 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.

词形变化

belemnites plural

词源

Etymology tree
Ancient Greek βέλεμνον (bélemnon)
Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.
Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.
Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)der.
Latin -ītēsbor.
French -iteder.
English -ite
English belemnite
From Ancient Greek βέλεμνον (bélemnon, “dart, arrow”) + English -ite.
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