Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Baculite \Bac"u*lite\, n. [L. baculune 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.