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ˈnɔt l əs, ˈnɒt-; ˈnɔt lˌaɪ, ˈnɒt-nau·tilus

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. nautilus, nuclear submarine, nuclear-powered submarinenoun

    a submarine that is propelled by nuclear power

  2. paper nautilus, nautilus, Argonaut, Argonauta argonoun

    cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells

  3. chambered nautilus, pearly nautilus, nautilusnoun

    cephalopod of the Indian and Pacific oceans having a spiral shell with pale pearly partitions

Wiktionary

  1. nautilusnoun

    A marine mollusc, of the family Nautilidae native to the Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean, which has tentacles and a spiral shell with a series of air-filled chambers.

  2. Etymology: From nautilus, from ναυτίλος.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. NAUTILUSnoun

    A shell fish furnished with something analogous to oars and a sail.

    Etymology: Latin; nautile, Fr.

    Learn of the little nautilus to sail,
    Spread the thin oar and catch the driving gale. Alexander Pope.

ChatGPT

  1. nautilus

    A nautilus is an aquatic animal, more specifically a marine cephalopod of the family Nautilidae, inhabiting the Pacific and Indian Oceans. It has a spiral, often beautifully colored shell with inner chambers filled with gas for buoyancy control. Nautilus is also notable for being one of the oldest living species on earth, with a lineage that goes back over 500 million years. The term may also refer to a U.S. nuclear-powered submarine mentioned in Jules Verne’s book Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Nautilusnoun

    the only existing genus of tetrabranchiate cephalopods. About four species are found living in the tropical Pacific, but many other species are found fossil. The shell is spiral, symmetrical, and chambered, or divided into several cavities by simple curved partitions, which are traversed and connected together by a continuous and nearly central tube or siphuncle. See Tetrabranchiata

  2. Nautilusnoun

    the argonaut; -- also called paper nautilus. See Argonauta, and Paper nautilus, under Paper

  3. Nautilusnoun

    a variety of diving bell, the lateral as well as vertical motions of which are controlled, by the occupants

  4. Etymology: [L., fr. Gr. nayti`los a seaman, sailor, a kind of shellfish which was supposed to be furnished with a membrane which served as a sail; fr. nay^s ship. See Nave of a church.]

Wikidata

  1. Nautilus

    Nautilus is the common name of pelagic marine mollusks of the cephalopod family Nautilidae, the sole extant family of the superfamily Nautilaceae and of its smaller but near equal suborder, Nautilina. It comprises six living species in two genera, the type of which is the genus Nautilus. Though it more specifically refers to species Nautilus pompilius, the name chambered nautilus is also used for any species of the Nautilidae. Nautilidae, both extant and extinct, are characterized by involute or slightly evolute shells that are generally smooth, with compressed or depressed whorl sections, straight to sinuous sutures, and a tubular, generally central siphuncle. Having survived relatively unchanged for millions of years, nautiluses represent the only living members of the subclass Nautiloidea, and are often considered "living fossils." The name "nautilus" originally referred to the pelagic octopuses of the genus Argonauta, otherwise known as paper nautiluses, as the ancients believed these animals used their two expanded arms as sails.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Nautilus

    naw′ti-lus, n. a Cephalopod found in the southern seas, once believed to sail by means of the expanded tentacular arms: a kind of diving-bell sinking or rising by means of condensed air:—pl. Nau′tiluses, or Nau′tili.—adjs. Nau′tiliform, Nau′tiloid.—Paper nautilus, any species of Argonauta. [L.,—Gr. nautilos, a sailor.]

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Nautilus

    The sole genus in the family Nautilidae, order Nautilida, comprised of CEPHALOPODS with spiral external shells that are separated into chambers.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. nautilus

    The pearly nautilus, N. pompilius, is a marine animal, belonging to the same class (Cephalopoda) as the cuttle-fish, but protected by a beautiful, chambered, discoid shell. The paper-nautilus (Argonauta argo) belongs to a different family of the same class, and has a simple, delicate, boat-like shell.

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  1. lutianus

  2. ustulina

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of nautilus in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of nautilus in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

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