Noun: baculite
| Singular | baculite |
| Plural | baculites |
Sample Sentences
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The shell of a baculite was quite simply straight—an unexpected throwback to the early days of cephalopods. [2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 89:]
Nouns inflected like baculite
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin baculum (“stick”) + -ite. See: Latin Nouns '
baculum'.