"Nautilus" is a word in ENGLISH
The argonaut; -- also called paper nautilus. See
Argonauta, and Paper nautilus, under Paper.
A variety of diving bell, the lateral as well as vertical
motions of which are controlled, by the occupants.
The only existing genus of tetrabranchiate cephalopods.
About four species are found living in the tropical Pacific, but many
other species are found fossil. The shell is spiral, symmetrical, and
chambered, or divided into several cavities by simple curved
partitions, which are traversed and connected together by a continuous
and nearly central tube or siphuncle. See Tetrabranchiata.
Before he sets out the traveller must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel. If he drifted aimlessly from country to country he would not travel but only wander ramble as a tramp. The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere so his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.
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A fossil cephalopod shell related to the nautilus. There are many genera and species, and all are extinct, the typical …
Read the complete definitionA genus of Cephalopoda. The shell is called paper nautilus or paper sailor.
Read the complete definitionHaving the form of a disk, as those univalve shells which have the whorls in one plane, so as to …
Read the complete definitionlagang n chambered nautilus.
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Read the complete definitionA fossil nautilus.
Read the complete definitionA mollusk, or shell, of the genus Nautilus or family Nautilidae.
Read the complete definitionLike or pertaining to the nautilus; shaped like a nautilus shell.
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Read the complete definitionMany-chambered; -- applied to shells of Foraminifera and cephalopods. See Illust. of Nautilus.
Read the complete definitionOne of the transverse partitions dividing the shell of a mollusk, or of a rhizopod, into several chambers. See Illust. …
Read the complete definitionSiphon-bearing, as the shell of the nautilus and other cephalopods.
Read the complete definitionA special organ of the nautilus, due to a modification of the posterior tentacles.
Read the complete definitionAn order of Cephalopoda having four gills. Among living species it includes only the pearly nautilus. Numerous genera and species …
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