belemnitidae

English Thesaurus

1. family of extinct Mesozoic cephalopods (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	mollusk family,
definition	:	a family of mollusks (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	belemnite,
definition	:	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 (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	belemnoidea, order belemnoidea,
definition	:	order of extinct dibranchiate cephalopods related to the surviving spirulas (noun.animal)