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Meanings of nautilus in English
Cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells.
Portuguese
submarino nuclear Catalan
submarí nuclear Catalan
nàutil Cephalopod of the Indian and Pacific oceans having a spiral shell with pale pearly partitions.
Usage of nautilus in English
1
Now, I'm willing to venture that you already know about the nautilus.
2
They sat in nautilus shells, which were each borne by two bearers.
3
The man within the umbrella drew aside the curtain of hanging nautilus shells.
4
Like the nautilus, too, it had respectable sailing and floating powers.
5
He coiled them up in a nautilus pattern so they wouldn't roll away.
6
The varieties of the paper nautilus, or argonaut, are the most delicate and beautiful.
7
After a heavy storm the paper nautilus is sometimes found.
8
Armlets of nautilus shell threw up the dainty plumpness of her soft, round forearm.
9
The thing wound around itself like a chambered nautilus, going in a counterclockwise direction.
10
The girl looked uncertain as she eyed the concentric arcs of the nautilus spiral.
11
It mirrored all the warm, pearly tints of the inside whorl of the tropic nautilus.
12
The new Order became an old one in course of time, and, like the nautilus.
13
But of course the chambered nautilus may emerge again.
14
The typical form was closely coiled like a nautilus.
15
Thirty centimes-heregoes for a sight of the nautilus.
16
Dark fronds coated the walls with swirling nautilus patterns.
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