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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

baculum

stick, staff; cf. F.

baculite

(Paleon.)

A cephalopod of the extinct genus

Baculites

, found fossil in the Cretaceous rocks. It is like an uncoiled ammonite.

, n.[L.baculus.]

A genus of fossil shells, of a straight form, in their cellular structure resembling the ammonites.

baculite ‎(plural baculites)