nautilus

Definitions

Examples

• Neither the nautilus nor coelacanth appear to be predators of live animals.

• A week before, we had fitted the nautiluses with acoustic transmitters that gave their position and depth.

• He began field research on living nautiluses in 1975 at age 25.

• For the past decade, we’ve returned all the nautiluses we caught to the sea.

• Their predators, sharks and large fish, are visual hunters, so the nautiluses were safer in the darker, deeper depths.

• There is something about being in Captain Nemo's Nautilus that makes the absinthe taste even better.

• The "next step," as in the case of the male organ of the nautilus, is to grow a tool and detach it.

• The first is called Nautilus Papyraceus; and its shell is indeed no thicker than a piece of paper, when out of the water.

• Two (p. 635) broadsides were then interchanged, by which the "Nautilus" was severely cut up, and eight of her crew killed.

• The argonaut, or paper-nautilus, must be carefully distinguished from the pearly-nautilus or nautilus proper (Nautilus Pompilius).

• At night the owner of a "Nautilus" canoe can either haul his craft ashore or anchor in deep water.