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Meaning of nautilus

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  nautilus
      n 1: a submarine that is propelled by nuclear power [syn:
           {nautilus}, {nuclear submarine}, {nuclear-powered
           submarine}]
      2: cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate
         papery spiral shells [syn: {paper nautilus}, {nautilus},
         {Argonaut}, {Argonauta argo}]
      3: cephalopod of the Indian and Pacific oceans having a spiral
         shell with pale pearly partitions [syn: {chambered nautilus},
         {pearly nautilus}, {nautilus}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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