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nautilus
/ˈnɔ.tɪ.ləs/
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What does nautilus mean?
noun
- 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, of which Nautilus is the type genus.
- A kind of diving bell that sinks or rises by means of compressed air.
- A paper nautilus (actually an octopus).
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No chambered nautilus was to have better opportunity to expand the tender mansions of its soul.
“I will call my friend, the Nautilus, and he will bear you safely to the Coral Palace where the Spirits dwell.”
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But in this middle fluid travelled over by the Nautilus, the electric brightness was produced even in the bosom of the waves.
Like the nautilus, the ammonites all possess a coiled and chambered shell, but their especial characteristic is the complexity of the "sutures."
Men did not know then that the animal which lives in them is no more like a Nautilus animal than it is like a cow.