GENUS NAUTILUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Nautilus mean? 

• GENUS NAUTILUS (noun)
  The noun GENUS NAUTILUS has 1 sense:

1. type genus and sole recent representative of the family Nautilidae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS NAUTILUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Type genus and sole recent representative of the family Nautilidae

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Nouns denoting animals

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

mollusk genus (a genus of mollusks)

Meronyms (members of "genus Nautilus"):

chambered nautilus; nautilus; pearly nautilus (cephalopod of the Indian and Pacific oceans having a spiral shell with pale pearly partitions)

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

family Nautilidae; Nautilidae (spiral-shelled cephalopods)