pearly nautilus
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noun
Nearby words
- pearlstein, philip,
- pearlwort,
- pearly,
- pearly gates,
- pearly king,
- pearly queen,
- pearly razorfish,
- pearly tubercle,
- pearly white,
- pearmain
Origin of pearly nautilus
First recorded in 1770–80
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Examples from the Web for pearly nautilus
The argonaut, or paper-nautilus, must be carefully distinguished from the pearly-nautilus or nautilus proper (Nautilus Pompilius).
pearly nautilus
noun
any of several cephalopod molluscs of the genus Nautilus, esp N. pompilius, of warm and tropical seas, having a partitioned pale pearly external shell with brown stripesAlso called: chambered nautilus Compare paper nautilus
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