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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of cephalopods, typical of the family Argonautidœ.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) A genus of Cephalopoda. The shell is called paper nautilus or paper sailor.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun type genus of the family Argonautidae: paper nautilus

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