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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A cephalopod mollusk of the genus Nautilus, especially N. pompilius, found in the Indian and Pacific oceans and having a spiral, pearly-lined shell with a series of air-filled chambers. Also called chambered nautilus, pearly nautilus.
  2. n. The paper nautilus.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The Argonauta argo, or any other cephalopod believed to sail by means of the expanded tentacular arms.
  2. n. A genus of tetrabranchiate cephalopoda, type of Nautilacea or Nautilidæ, to which very different limits have been assigned. By Linnæus it was made to include all the camcrate or tetrabranchiate cephalopods aS well as foraminiferous shells having like forms. It was afterward gradually restricted.
  3. n. A Portuguese man-of-war. See Physalia.
  4. n. A form of diving-bell which requires no suspension, sinking and rising by the agency of condensed air.

Wiktionary

  1. n. 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.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Zoöl.) The only existing genus of tetrabranchiate cephalopods. About four species are found living in the tropical Pacific, but many other species are found fossil. The shell is spiral, symmetrical, and chambered, or divided into several cavities by simple curved partitions, which are traversed and connected together by a continuous and nearly central tube or siphuncle. See tetrabranchiata.
  2. n. The argonaut; -- also called paper nautilus. See Argonauta, and Paper nautilus, under Paper.
  3. n. A variety of diving bell, the lateral as well as vertical motions of which are controlled, by the occupants.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. cephalopod of the Indian and Pacific oceans having a spiral shell with pale pearly partitions
  2. n. a submarine that is propelled by nuclear power
  3. n. cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells

Etymologies

  1. From Latin nautilus, from Ancient Greek ναυτίλος (nautilos, "paper nautilus, sailor"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin, from Greek nautilos, sailor, nautilus, from nautēs, mariner, from naus, ship. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • “The word "nautilus" comes from the Greek for boat.”

    NYT > Home Page

  • “Head on over to her blog for even more juice on GNOME 3 from the week-long discussion. remove combo box to change nautilus view, just use menu? frustration that nautilus is becoming like midnight commander, not beautiful to use, too complicated dont like split pane idea, why not use two windows? split-pane seems universally disliked by GNOME designers. snap to side-by-side like in windows 7 would be good and would remove need for split-pane. search in nautilus sucks confusion between magnifying glass icon for search vs zoom”

    Archive 2010-02-01

  • “Most noatble fix pertaining to this: the back, forward and up buttons in nautilus.”

    Subtle icon changes in Lucid of late

  • “We measured the hole they would require for entering, and discovered that out of the number we had made, the one which had caught the nautilus was the only one with a hole sufficiently large to allow it to enter.”

    In the Eastern Seas

  • “Catching the nautilus is a largely unregulated free-for-all in which fishermen from poor South Pacific countries gladly accept $1 per shell.”

    NYT > Home Page

  • “And there's the first thing Apple actually does good in my opinion: Why should a file browser that people need to find files be called nautilus?”

    tante's blog

  • “Aphrodite with the "nautilus," by which is meant the argonaut of zoologists.”

    The Evolution of the Dragon

  • “The two last stanzas, with their associates, will require a few of your delicate touches, before you mount them on the nautilus which is to bear them buoyant round the world.”

    Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey

  • “Coming from North Carolina, Deanna Blanchard and Chuck Young will be showing their exquisite stained glass screens and first-time exhibitor Jennifer Jordan Park will be offering a gorgeous line of enamel, silver and gold jewelry set in objects found in nature such as nautilus shells.”

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  • “Ubuntu users can install the nautilus-gksu, nautilus-image-converter, and nautilus-open-terminal packages for starters; users of other distributions should search their package manager for "nautilus" (or "konqueror" for KDE-based systems) to see what's available for quick right-click fix-ups.”

    Daily DIY

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synonyms (1)

Words with the same meaning

  1. chambered nautilus

hypernyms (7)

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  1. cephalopod mollusk
  1. cephalopod
  1. pigboat
  1. U-boat
  1. sub
  1. submarine
  1. octopod

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  1. carpenters'
  2. milk-teeth
  3. wirebound
  1. geniculate
  2. ormer
  3. safo
  1. cowrie
  2. unnoticeable
  3. metaphoric
  1. spheroidal
  2. cochlear
  3. snail-like
  1. delicatest
  2. thirteen-inch
  3. fingerboard
  1. drinking-horn

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. pearl-nautilus
  2. nautilus
  3. nautili
  4. nautiliform
  5. nautilite
  6. nautilus-cup
  7. pearly nautilus
  8. chambered nautilus
  9. nautiloid
  1. polythalamous
  2. lobe
  3. discoid
  4. exogastric
  5. lamelligerous
  6. otocystic canal
  7. nautilacea
  8. nuchicartilage
  9. paper nautilus
  1. paper-sailor
  2. quadrauricular
  3. siphuncular
  4. argonaut
  5. argonauta
  6. antispadix
  7. siphuncle
  8. tetrabranchiate
  9. ammonite
  1. cephalopod
  2. genus argonauta
  3. Octopoda
  4. order octopoda
  5. cephalopoda
  6. class cephalopoda
  7. septum
  8. siphoniferous
  9. spadix
  1. tetrabranchiata
  2. Argo
  3. chamber
  4. Nautilidae
  5. slipper
  6. air-chamber
  7. macrobranchiate
  8. nautilicone
  9. venter
  1. tetrabranch
  2. velamentous
  3. Venus

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