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

2. In full paper nautilus. Any of several free-swimming octopods of the genus Argonauta, the female of which has webbed sail-like arms and secretes a thin coiled papery shell to protect the eggs; an argonaut. Also: the false shell of this octopod.The paper nautilus was formerly believed to sail on the surface of the sea by spreading its membranous arms.

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1733 A. Pope Ess. Man iii. 179 Learn of the little Nautilus to sail, Spread the thin Oar, and catch the driving Gale.

1792 G. Shaw Vivarium Naturæ, or Naturalist's Misc. III. pl. 101 The Argonaut, or Paper Nautilus.

1824 W. N. Blane Excurs. through U.S. 7 The nautili, if in danger of being run over, will, as the sailors term it, capsize.

1854 A. Catlow Pop. Conchol. (ed. 2) 28 The curious and beautiful shells of the Argonauta Argo, or Paper Nautilus, are found in the seas of warm latitudes.

1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad v. 48 The nautilus is nothing but a transparent web of jelly.

1999 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 16 Dec. 76/1 Thus the ‘paper nautilus’, known to most of us solely as an empty shell sitting on a mantlepiece, is rendered a living thing.

paper nautilus n. a small dibranchiate cephalopod of the genus Argonauta, the female of which is protected by a very thin, single-chambered, detached shell, and has webbed dorsal arms which it was formerly believed to use as sails (also called argonaut); the shell of such a cephalopod; cf. paper-shelled nautilus n.

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1792 G. Shaw Vivarium Naturæ, or Naturalist's Misc. III. pl. 101 The Argonaut, or Paper Nautilus.

1870 H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. I. li. 275 In the former of these [sc. families] there is only the single genus Argonauta (the Paper Sailor, or the Paper Nautilus).

1999 Sewanee Rev. 107 p. xxxiv/1 We read her response to the gift of a paper nautilus shell.

单词	paper nautilus
释义	> as lemmas paper nautilus 2. In full paper nautilus. Any of several free-swimming octopods of the genus Argonauta, the female of which has webbed sail-like arms and secretes a thin coiled papery shell to protect the eggs; an argonaut. Also: the false shell of this octopod.The paper nautilus was formerly believed to sail on the surface of the sea by spreading its membranous arms. ΚΠ 1733 A. Pope Ess. Man iii. 179 Learn of the little Nautilus to sail, Spread the thin Oar, and catch the driving Gale. 1792 G. Shaw Vivarium Naturæ, or Naturalist's Misc. III. pl. 101 The Argonaut, or Paper Nautilus. 1824 W. N. Blane Excurs. through U.S. 7 The nautili, if in danger of being run over, will, as the sailors term it, capsize. 1854 A. Catlow Pop. Conchol. (ed. 2) 28 The curious and beautiful shells of the Argonauta Argo, or Paper Nautilus, are found in the seas of warm latitudes. 1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad v. 48 The nautilus is nothing but a transparent web of jelly. 1999 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 16 Dec. 76/1 Thus the ‘paper nautilus’, known to most of us solely as an empty shell sitting on a mantlepiece, is rendered a living thing. extracted from nautilusn. paper nautilus paper nautilus n. a small dibranchiate cephalopod of the genus Argonauta, the female of which is protected by a very thin, single-chambered, detached shell, and has webbed dorsal arms which it was formerly believed to use as sails (also called argonaut); the shell of such a cephalopod; cf. paper-shelled nautilus n. ΚΠ 1792 G. Shaw Vivarium Naturæ, or Naturalist's Misc. III. pl. 101 The Argonaut, or Paper Nautilus. 1870 H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. I. li. 275 In the former of these [sc. families] there is only the single genus Argonauta (the Paper Sailor, or the Paper Nautilus). 1999 Sewanee Rev. 107 p. xxxiv/1 We read her response to the gift of a paper nautilus shell. extracted from papern.adj. < as lemmas
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