- a conical fossil, several inches long, consisting of the internal calcareous rod of an extinct animal allied to the cuttlefish; a thunderstone.
- any extinct marine cephalopod mollusc of the order Belemnoidea, related to the cuttlefish
- the long pointed conical internal shell of any of these animals: a common Mesozoic fossil
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