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Sea creature whose name means "sailor"
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nautilus
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
marine cephalopod, c.1600, from Latin nautilus , in Pliny a kind of marine snail (including also squid, cuttlefish, polyps, etc.), from Greek nautilos "paper nautilus," literally "sailor," from nautes "sailor," from naus "ship" (see naval ). The cephalopod ...
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The nautilus (from the Latin form of the original Greek ναυτίλος , 'sailor') is a pelagic marine mollusc of the cephalopod family Nautilidae, the sole extant family of the superfamily Nautilaceae and of its smaller but near equal suborder, Nautilina . It ...
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Captain Nemo watched the troop of cetacea playing on the waters about a mile from the Nautilus.
Nautilus, if the day after to-morrow she is to be in the Mediterranean, having made the round of Africa, and doubled the Cape of Good Hope!
The next day, the 16th of February, we left the basin which, between Rhodes and Alexandria, is reckoned about 1,500 fathoms in depth, and the Nautilus, passing some distance from Cerigo, quitted the Grecian Archipelago after having doubled Cape Matapan.
I saw the nautilus, the squid, the obelia, and the elasmobranch shark.
When I reflected that this marvellous electric agent, after having afforded motion, heat, and light to the Nautilus, still protected her from outward attack, and transformed her into an ark of safety which no profane hand might touch without being thunderstricken, my admiration was unbounded, and from the structure it extended to the engineer who had called it into existence.
Then sleep overpowered me, and I stretched myself on my couch of zostera, and slept profoundly, whilst the Nautilus was gliding rapidly through the current of the Black River.
We were then about eighteen hundred miles from our starting-point, and the course of the Nautilus, a little changed, was bringing it back towards the southeast.
I wished to see if the direction the Nautilus was taking was bringing us nearer or taking us farther from the coast.
Nautilus, then, gliding under its hull, raised it with irresistible force, bringing it into beds which are not so thick, where it is lying on its side.
Soon the Nautilus returned to her native element, and the manometer showed that she was about thirty feet deep.
The point shown each day on the planisphere, and, marked by the lieutenant, showed me the exact direction of the Nautilus.
Two hours after quitting the Nautilus we had crossed the line of trees, and a hundred feet above our heads rose the top of the mountain, which cast a shadow on the brilliant irradiation of the opposite slope.
A rumor had spread through the civilians in the Nautilus that the High Guard had found seven hundred and thirty-two bombs ready to go, with component parts for many more, plus enough deuterium and tritium to make up about a dozen H bombs.
The most spectacular of Cretaceous mollusks were the ammonites, chambered cephalopods related to the modern pearly nautilus and, more distantly, to squid and octopus.
Especially useful are the ammonites, an extinct, shelled relative of modern octopus, squid, and the chambered nautilus.