Definitions of paper nautilus
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cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells
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synonyms:
Argonaut, Argonauta argo, nautilus
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type of:
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octopod
a cephalopod with eight arms but lacking an internal shell
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octopod
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