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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 nautilus
Familiarity information: GENUS ARGONAUTA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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