GENUS NAUTILUS

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Meaning:

Type genus and sole recent representative of the family Nautilidae

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Nouns denoting animals

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

mollusk genus (a genus of mollusks)

Meronyms (members of "genus Nautilus"):

chambered nautilus; nautilus; pearly nautilus (cephalopod of the Indian and Pacific oceans having a spiral shell with pale pearly partitions)

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

family Nautilidae; Nautilidae (spiral-shelled cephalopods)

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