[ad. mod.L. Ventriculites, f. L. ventriculus ventricle: see -ITE1 2.] A fossil sponge belonging to the genus Ventriculites or the family Ventriculitidæ.
1822. Mantell, Geol. Sussex, 176. The difference in the form of this ventriculite.
1885. J. E. Taylor, Brit. Fossils, i. 24. In the white chalk of Sussex,… Ventriculites occur in great numbers.
Hence Ventriculitic a., of or belonging to, containing, ventriculites. (In recent Dicts.)
