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PAPER NAUTILUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does paper nautilus mean?
• PAPER NAUTILUS (noun)
The noun PAPER NAUTILUS has 1 sense:
1. cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells
Familiarity information: PAPER NAUTILUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Argonaut; Argonauta argo; nautilus; paper nautilus
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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