英语词汇“nautilus”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

nautilus

释义

nautilus /nöˈti-ləs/

noun (pl nauˈtiluses or nauˈtilī)

A tetrabranchiate cephalopod of the genus Nautilus (esp pearly nautilus) of southern seas, with a chambered external shell
A Mediterranean dibranchiate cephalopod with a paperlike shell (paper nautilus or argonaut) wrongly believed by Aristotle to use its arms as sails

ORIGIN: L, from Gr nautilos a sailor, a paper nautilus, from naus ship

nauˈtiloid noun

A mollusc of the subclass Nautiloidˈea, to which the nautilus and several extinct species belong

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