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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A family of octopod cephalopods, represented by the genus Argonauta, with an ovoid finless body and the two uppermost arms (in the female) expanded terminally into broad flattish velamenta, which secrete a papery, spiral, single-chambered, involute shell.

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