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NAUTILUS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: nautili   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cephalopod of the Indian and Pacific oceans having a spiral shell with pale pearly partitions

Synonyms:

chambered nautilus; nautilus; pearly nautilus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("nautilus" is a kind of...):

cephalopod; cephalopod mollusk (marine mollusk characterized by well-developed head and eyes and sucker-bearing tentacles)

Holonyms ("nautilus" is a member of...):

genus Nautilus (type genus and sole recent representative of the family Nautilidae)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells

Synonyms:

Argonaut; Argonauta argo; nautilus; paper nautilus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("nautilus" is a kind of...):

octopod (a cephalopod with eight arms but lacking an internal shell)

Holonyms ("nautilus" is a member of...):

Argonauta; genus Argonauta (type genus of the family Argonautidae: paper nautilus)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A submarine that is propelled by nuclear power

Synonyms:

nautilus; nuclear-powered submarine; nuclear submarine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("nautilus" is a kind of...):

pigboat; sub; submarine; U-boat (a submersible warship usually armed with torpedoes)

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