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†(a) fossil belemnites (obsolete); (b) the foxglove, Digitalis purpurea, or its flowers.
a local name for a belemnite (cf. thunderbolt, n. 3a).
The extinct animal to which this belonged.
Palaeontology. A belemnite. Obsolete. rare.