Definitions
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- n. Plural form of nautilus.
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Examples
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In richly colored paintings Ms. Judge shows readers ages 5-12 some of what they found: nautiluses and octopuses, lizards and kiwis, "okapis from the Congo, capybaras from Colombia, and marabou storks."
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Hundreds of fossils are locked in glass cases, specimens from all over southern Africa: shells and worms and nautiluses and seed ferns and trilobites, and minerals, too; yellow-green crystals and gleaming clusters of quartz; mosquitoes in drops of amber; scheelite, wulfenite.
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Ammonites were creatures with flat shells that had a regular, helically-spiraled shape, that existed on Earth in prehistoric times, having evolved from nautiluses.
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Therefore, the common notion is that nautiluses are living fossils, perhaps near the end of their evolutionary journey.
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The idea of nautiluses as living fossils now has to be rejected...
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This new assessment derives from recent research that has shown that there are actually more extant species of nautiluses than were formerly realized.
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If people want to have two monospecific genera of extant nautiloid Nautilus and Allonautilus to highlight the distinctiveness of the two species, I guess I don't really care, but there really isn't much known genetic diversity out there among extant nautiluses other than that seen between scrobiculatus and pompilius.
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“They are nautiluses!” cried Surgeon Balmain, exasperated.
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Still, for my part, I should have preferred fair weather, bright skies, and plenty of nautiluses and flying-fish.
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He enjoyed the deep blue color of the sea; he went into ecstasies over the beautiful little nautiluses that sailed along by the ship; he watched with wild delight the porpoises that followed close by our side, and fairly shouted when a big fellow would spring into the air, or shoot along just under the surface, as if he had a steam-engine in his tail.
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