nautilus
English Thesaurus
1. cephalopod of the Indian and Pacific oceans having a spiral shell with pale pearly partitions (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | cephalopod, cephalopod mollusk, |
| definition | : | marine mollusk characterized by well-developed head and eyes and sucker-bearing tentacles (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | genus nautilus, |
| definition | : | type genus and sole recent representative of the family Nautilidae (noun.animal) |
2. cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | octopod, |
| definition | : | a cephalopod with eight arms but lacking an internal shell (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | argonauta, genus argonauta, |
| definition | : | type genus of the family Argonautidae: paper nautilus (noun.animal) |
3. a submarine that is propelled by nuclear power (noun.artifact)
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