PAPER NAUTILUS

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 I. (noun) 

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

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

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

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

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