nautilus

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Near Shekar town we had lunch in a roadside restaurant, where we bought a well-preserved fossil nautilus from a Tibetan boy there.

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  1. noun 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. noun The paper nautilus.

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  • And as we speak now, these nautilus are tracking out their behaviors to us. —  Peter Ward on mass extinctions
  • 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
  • Near Shekar town we had lunch in a roadside restaurant, where we bought a well-preserved fossil nautilus from a Tibetan boy there. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • This can be used as a nautilus-script or a nautilus-action. —  GNOME-Look.org Content
  • 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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  1. Latin, from Greek nautilos, sailor, nautilus, from nautēs, mariner, from naus, ship; see nāu- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. New Latin, from L, nautilus, a nautilus, from Greek ναυτίλος, a sailor, a nautilus, a poet, form for ναύτης, a sailor, from . ναῦς, a ship: see nautic, nave.
 

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