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Definition of Baculite
1. n. A cephalopod of the extinct genus Baculites, found fossil in the Cretaceous rocks. It is like an uncoiled ammonite.
Definition of Baculite
1. Noun. Any of the extinct genus ''Baculites'' of cephalopod heteromorph ammonites. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Baculite
1. a fossil [n -S] - See also: fossil
Medical Definition of Baculite
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Baculite
Literary usage of Baculite
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life History of Our Planet by William Dickey Gunning (1876)
"The last of the race was the baculite, No. 10. The shell was uncoiled. ...
The septa of the baculite, in youth and maturity alike, corresponded to the ..."
2. Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology by William Buckland (1841)
"baculite. As in rocks of the Transition series, the form of a straight Nautilus
... The baculite (so called from its resemblance to a straight staff) is a ..."
3. The Bridgewater Treatises on the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God, as by Francis Henry Egerton Bridgewater (1836)
"baculite, from Chalk of the Cotentin ; terminating at its large end in the ...
Front view of the transverse plate of a baculite, shewing the margin to be ..."
4. Geological Observations on South America: Being the Third Part of the by Charles Darwin (1846)
"But as the baculite, especially considering its apparent identity with the Cretaceous
... has living representatives in the Australian seas, so a baculite, ..."
5. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1859)
"1 along the Missouri, near the Big Sioux, and in northeastern Kansas,* and we
have a baculite from similar beds, apparently of the same age, near the mouth ..."
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