Word: belemnites
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: be
lem
nites
Definition: Plural of belemnite; a conical calcareous fossil tapering to a point at one end and with a conical cavity at the other end containing (when unbroken) a small chambered phragmocone from the shell of any of numerous extinct cephalopods of the family Belemnitidae
Morphemes:
Affix: belemnite
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: 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.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: βέλεμνον
Language: grc
Decoded: belemnon
Meaning: dart, arrow
Affix: -ite
Language: en
Decoded: -ite
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form nouns denoting fossil organisms.
Affix: -s
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form many pluralia tantum (nouns that are almost or entirely without singular forms).