ARGONAUTA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Argonauta mean? 

• ARGONAUTA (noun)
  The noun ARGONAUTA has 1 sense:

1. type genus of the family Argonautidae: paper nautilus

  Familiarity information: ARGONAUTA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARGONAUTA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Type genus of the family Argonautidae: paper nautilus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Argonauta; genus Argonauta

Hypernyms ("Argonauta" is a kind of...):

mollusk genus (a genus of mollusks)

Meronyms (members of "Argonauta"):

Argonaut; Argonauta argo; nautilus; paper nautilus (cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells)

Holonyms ("Argonauta" is a member of...):

Argonautidae; family Argonautidae (represented solely by the genus Argonauta)