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Meanings of pearly nautilus in English

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Cephalopod of the Indian and Pacific oceans having a spiral shell with pale pearly partitions.

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        Examples for "nautilus"
        1
        Now, I'm willing to venture that you already know about the nautilus.
        Wired
        2
        They sat in nautilus shells, which were each borne by two bearers.
        St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 2, December, 1877
        3
        The man within the umbrella drew aside the curtain of hanging nautilus shells.
        The Great Taboo
        4
        Like the nautilus, too, it had respectable sailing and floating powers.
        The Long White Cloud: "Ao Tea Roa"
        5
        The headquarters of the Nautilus are in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
        The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) / A Plain Story Simply Tol...
        1
        The thing wound around itself like a chambered nautilus, going in a counterclockwise direction.
        To Die in Italbar
        2
        But of course the chambered nautilus may emerge again.
        The Masques of Ottawa
        3
        No chambered nautilus was to have better opportunity to expand the tender mansions of its soul.
        The Haunted Bookshop
        4
        What thought must have been in the mind of those who gave the chambered nautilus this name?
        Elson Grammar School Literature, book 4
        5
        It has designs more intricate than a chambered nautilus, features more baroque than the most buttressed Gothic cathedral.
        The Hyperion Cantos
        Usage of pearly nautilus in English
        1
        In the islands of the Pacific the young of the pearly nautilus are strung upon strings and sold for $25 and $20 as necklaces.
        Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882
        2
        It is a single-chambered shell, very different from that of the Pearly Nautilus.
        The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) / A Plain Story Simply Tol...
        3
        This was a discourse on Evolution, based upon the consideration of the Pearly Nautilus.
        Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2
        4
        Rede Lecture, on the Pearly Nautilus and Evolution.
        Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3
        5
        The follicles of the branchial arteries are thus described in the "Memoir on the Pearly Nautilus:"-"Theyare short and pyriform and closely set together.
        Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 / Zoo...
        Translations for pearly nautilus
        Catalan
        nàutil