PAPER NAUTILUS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

Argonaut; Argonauta argo; nautilus; paper nautilus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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)