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GENUS ARGONAUTA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Argonauta mean? 

GENUS ARGONAUTA (noun)
  The noun GENUS ARGONAUTA has 1 sense:

1. type genus of the family Argonautidae: paper nautilusplay

  Familiarity information: GENUS ARGONAUTA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GENUS ARGONAUTA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Type genus of the family Argonautidae: paper nautilus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Argonauta; genus Argonauta

Hypernyms ("genus Argonauta" is a kind of...):

mollusk genus (a genus of mollusks)

Meronyms (members of "genus Argonauta"):

Argonaut; Argonauta argo; nautilus; paper nautilus (cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells)

Holonyms ("genus Argonauta" is a member of...):

Argonautidae; family Argonautidae (represented solely by the genus Argonauta)


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