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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



... Rowing Clubs dining together at the London Tavern, on the above date, Mr. Dickens, as President of the Nautilus Rowing Club, occupied the chair. The Speech that follows was made in proposing "Prosperity to the Rowing Clubs of London." Mr. Dickens ...
— Speeches: Literary and Social • Charles Dickens

... animals or Invertebrates were also different from those of today, although some would not be very noticeably so at first glance. Among molluscs, the Ammonites, related to the modern Pearly Nautilus, are an example of a race very numerous and varied during all the periods of the Reptilian Era, but disappearing at its close, leaving only a few collateral descendants in the squids, cuttlefish ...
— Dinosaurs - With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections • William Diller Matthew

... coral,—pink, green, yellow, and white. It all looked so safe and soft, as if one might crush it in the hands; and yet these huge cakes of coral were like adamant, except the delicate fern-like spikes that were so viciously piercing the bottom of our boat. I saw all kinds of sea shells, the lovely nautilus spreading its sails on the surface, and the huge devil-fish sprawling at the bottom of the shallow pools, with its many tentacles ...
— An Ohio Woman in the Philippines • Emily Bronson Conger

... uncle. "It is worth coming all the way from England to obtain, and living out here many years. Why, this is a perfect nautilus!" With the greatest care he drew out the fragile shell with the creature inside. "See," he said, "it belongs to the genus Cephalapoda. It is one of the Polythalamous, or ...
— In the Eastern Seas • W.H.G. Kingston

... of hearty food, such as potted owl with Minerva sauce, airy tongues of sirens, stewed ibis, livers of Roman Capitol geese, the wings of a Phoenix not too much done, love-lorn nightingales cooked briskly over Aladdin's lamp, chicken-pies made of fowls raised by Mrs. Carey, Nautilus chowder, and the like. Fruit, by all means, should always be taken by an uneasy victim at sea, especially Atalanta pippins and purple grapes raised by Bacchus & Co. Examining my garments one day as I lay on deck, ...
— Yesterdays with Authors • James T. Fields

... in fresh waters, being unable to live anywhere but in the sea. Such are the corals; those corallines which are called Polyzoa; those creatures which fabricate the lamp-shells, and are called Brachiopoda; the pearly Nautilus, and all animals allied to it; and all the ...
— Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) - Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky • Various

... "Essay on Truth," and such poems as Bryant's "Waterfowl," Addison's "Divine Ode," Milton's Sonnet on his Blindness, Wotton's "How happy is he born or taught," Emerson's "Rhodora," Holmes's "Chambered Nautilus," and Gray's Elegy, and has stamped them on his brain by frequent repetition, will have set up in his mind high standards of noble thought and feeling, true patriotism, and pure religion. He will also have laid in an invaluable ...
— The Junior Classics, Volume 1 • Willam Patten



Words linked to "Nautilus" :   U-boat, Argonauta argo, submarine, sub, genus Nautilus, Argonauta, genus Argonauta, pigboat, cephalopod, octopod, cephalopod mollusk



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