CHAMBERED NAUTILUS

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Meaning:

Cephalopod of the Indian and Pacific oceans having a spiral shell with pale pearly partitions

Synonyms:

chambered nautilus; nautilus; pearly nautilus

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("chambered nautilus" is a kind of...):

cephalopod; cephalopod mollusk (marine mollusk characterized by well-developed head and eyes and sucker-bearing tentacles)

Holonyms ("chambered nautilus" is a member of...):

genus Nautilus (type genus and sole recent representative of the family Nautilidae)

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