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chambered nautilus
chambered nautilus
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Origin of chambered nautilus1
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What thought must have been in the mind of those who gave the chambered nautilus this name?
Chambered Nautilus (cham'berd no'ti-lus), a shellfish belonging to the highest class of mollusks.
The craft seemed to have been circular, with compartmentation in spiral form, like a chambered nautilus.
Holmes, in The Chambered Nautilus, speaks of the “cold sea-maids” who “rise to sun their streaming hair.”
We have now only one species living, the chambered nautilus.
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