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GENUS ARGONAUTA

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Meaning:

Type genus of the family Argonautidae: paper nautilus

Synonyms:

Argonauta; genus Argonauta

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("genus Argonauta" is a kind of...):

mollusk genus (a genus of mollusks)

Meronyms (members of "genus Argonauta"):

Argonaut; Argonauta argo; nautilus; paper nautilus (cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells)

Holonyms ("genus Argonauta" is a member of...):

Argonautidae; family Argonautidae (represented solely by the genus Argonauta)

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