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Nautilus   /nˈɔtələs/   Listen
Nautilus

noun
(pl. E. nautiluses, L. nautili)
1.
A submarine that is propelled by nuclear power.  Synonyms: nuclear-powered submarine, nuclear submarine.
2.
Cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells.  Synonyms: Argonaut, Argonauta argo, paper nautilus.
3.
Cephalopod of the Indian and Pacific oceans having a spiral shell with pale pearly partitions.  Synonyms: chambered nautilus, pearly nautilus.



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"Nautilus" Quotes from Famous Books



... advantage that we are not surprised to find the coiled type (Goniatites) gain upon and gradually replace the straight-shelled types (Orthoceratites). The Silurian ocean swarms with these great shelled Cephalopods, of which the little Nautilus is ...
— The Story of Evolution • Joseph McCabe

... verge of vision, and longed for something to appear in sight—a rock, tree, a living creature—anything to relieve the universal sameness; just as the voyager on the ample ocean longs for ships, for cetaceae, or the sight of land, and is delighted with a nautilus, polypi, ...
— The War Trail - The Hunt of the Wild Horse • Mayne Reid

... morn, that breaks its heart of gold Above the purple hills; The eve, that spills Its nautilus splendor where the sea is rolled; The night, that leads the vast procession in Of stars and dreams,— The beauty that shall never die or pass:— The winds, that spin Of rain the misty mantles of the grass, And thunder-raiment of the mountain-streams; The sunbeams, needling with gold the ...
— An Ode • Madison J. Cawein

... this thing was for the sun to send down out of the skies the miracle of a special ray and transfigure me before their faces. I knew what that poem would be to them; I knew it would raise me up to remote and shining heights in their eyes, to very fellowship with the chambered Nautilus itself, and that from that fellowship they could never more dissociate me while they should live; and so I made sure to be by ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... Lyra Tyrian Stanmer Plover Renard Seagull Nautilus Swallow Brisei Cockatrice Scorpion Goldfinch Reindeer Hornet Espoir Mutine Nightingale Camden Pike Lapwing Skylark Duke of York Sheldrake Pigeon Spey Lady Mary Pelham Opossum ...
— A General Plan for a Mail Communication by Steam, Between Great Britain and the Eastern and Western Parts of the World • James MacQueen


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