nautilus : Idioms & Phrases

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chambered nautilus

  • noun cephalopod of the Indian and Pacific oceans having a spiral shell with pale pearly partitions
    nautilus; chambered nautilus.
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genus nautilus

  • noun type genus and sole recent representative of the family Nautilidae
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Paper nautilus

  • noun cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells
    Argonauta argo; nautilus; Argonaut.
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  • . (Zoöl.) See Argonauta.
Webster 1913

pearly nautilus

  • noun cephalopod of the Indian and Pacific oceans having a spiral shell with pale pearly partitions
    nautilus; chambered nautilus.
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