[f. STROMB + -ITE.] A fossil stromb or some similar shell.
1811. Pinkerton, Petral., II. 199. Tubercular strombites.
1828–32. Webster, Strombite, a petrified shell of the genus Strombus.
1843. Humble, Dict. Geol., etc. (ed. 2), 246. Strombites are very rare.
