NAUTILUS (nautili)

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Irregular inflected form: nautili   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does nautilus mean? 

• NAUTILUS (noun)
  The noun NAUTILUS has 3 senses:

1. a submarine that is propelled by nuclear power

2. cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells

3. cephalopod of the Indian and Pacific oceans having a spiral shell with pale pearly partitions

  Familiarity information: NAUTILUS used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NAUTILUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A submarine that is propelled by nuclear power

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

nautilus; nuclear-powered submarine; nuclear submarine

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

pigboat; sub; submarine; U-boat (a submersible warship usually armed with torpedoes)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Argonaut; Argonauta argo; nautilus; paper nautilus

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

octopod (a cephalopod with eight arms but lacking an internal shell)

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

Argonauta; genus Argonauta (type genus of the family Argonautidae: paper nautilus)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Cephalopod of the Indian and Pacific oceans having a spiral shell with pale pearly partitions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

chambered nautilus; nautilus; pearly nautilus

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

cephalopod; cephalopod mollusk (marine mollusk characterized by well-developed head and eyes and sucker-bearing tentacles)

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

genus Nautilus (type genus and sole recent representative of the family Nautilidae)