Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various marine cephalopod mollusks formerly classified in the subclass Nautiloidea, including the nautiluses and numerous extinct species known only from fossils.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Nautiliform; having the characters of a nautilus: belonging to the Nautiloidea.
- Resembling a nautilus: specifically applied to those foraminifers whose manychambered test resembles a nautilus-shell.
- noun That which is nautiloid, as the test of an infusorium
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Like or pertaining to the nautilus; shaped like a nautilus shell.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective zoology Resembling a
nautilus . - noun Any
mollusc orshell of thegenus Nautilus orfamily Nautilidae.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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At the Guggenheim there will be one singer, whose voice will be completely distorted by the nautiloid curves of the museum and a PA system, so I'm going to have to break down the visual vocabulary of abstraction and directly connect it to the forces and geometry described in the Randall/Sundrum model.
Matthew Ritchie: A Perilous Intellectual High Wire Act Matthew Ritchie 2010
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As I work a lot with sculpey, I learned for example from an accident with the model of an orthocone nautiloid that it can become extremely though when I is baked on higher temperatures.
BoarCroc James Gurney 2010
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I also used my first nautiloid model sculpting time a bit more than a half hour, painting time with water colours many frustrating hours... to make some photos of a prehistoric underwater diorama by photographing in front of a page from a book about the prehistoric seas:
Color Underwater James Gurney 2010
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In the case of the nautiloid the shell partly melted, and the remaining shell was so though that I had problems to remove it with a saw.
BoarCroc James Gurney 2010
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A friend of mine asked his invert prof. one that works int he Paleozoic what it might be and he thinks it is a nautiloid cephalopod irregularly sectioned, similar to Gonioceras occidentale.
Any ideas? ReBecca Foster 2009
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There is another thing from that area that I think is a nautiloid.
Any ideas? ReBecca Foster 2009
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Would/Could a nautiloid have that sort of "S"-ish shape to it though?
Any ideas? ReBecca Foster 2009
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Hmm...a very strangely weathered/deformed orthoconic nautiloid like Endoceras?
Any ideas? ReBecca Foster 2009
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Distinct from their nautiloid relatives, and alone among all mollusks, coleoids lack a shell.
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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Distinct from their nautiloid relatives, and alone among all mollusks, coleoids lack a shell.
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