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单词 argonaut
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argonaut

/ˈɑːɡ(ə)nɔːt /
noun
A small floating octopus, the female of which has webbed sail-like arms and secretes a thin coiled papery shell in which the eggs are laid. Also called paper nautilus.
  • Genus Argonauta, order Octopoda.
The coleoids include modern squids, cuttlefish, octopuses, and the argonauts or paper-nautilus, together with extinct groups such as the belemnites....
  • These ammoniac egg cases/brood chambers closely resemble the female Argonauta shell, produced for this purpose by the adult argonaut.
  • One of the most astounding cephalopods is the paper nautilus also known as argonaut.
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