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BELEMNOIDEA

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Order of extinct dibranchiate cephalopods related to the surviving spirulas

Synonyms:

Belemnoidea; order Belemnoidea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Belemnoidea" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Belemnoidea"):

Belemnitidae; family Belemnitidae (family of extinct Mesozoic cephalopods)

Holonyms ("Belemnoidea" is a member of...):

Dibranchia; Dibranchiata; subclass Dibranchia; subclass Dibranchiata (comprising all living cephalopods except the family Nautilidae: the orders Octopoda (octopuses) and Decapoda (squids and cuttlefish))

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