We are using cookies
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
Did you know?
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
Meanings of pearly nautilus in English
Catalan
nàutil Cephalopod of the Indian and Pacific oceans having a spiral shell with pale pearly partitions.
Synonyms
Examples for "nautilus"
Examples for "nautilus"
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
The headquarters of the Nautilus are in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
1
The thing wound around itself like a chambered nautilus, going in a counterclockwise direction.
2
But of course the chambered nautilus may emerge again.
3
No chambered nautilus was to have better opportunity to expand the tender mansions of its soul.
4
What thought must have been in the mind of those who gave the chambered nautilus this name?
5
It has designs more intricate than a chambered nautilus, features more baroque than the most buttressed Gothic cathedral.
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.
2
It is a single-chambered shell, very different from that of the Pearly Nautilus.
3
This was a discourse on Evolution, based upon the consideration of the Pearly Nautilus.
4
Rede Lecture, on the Pearly Nautilus and Evolution.
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.