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Definition of Genus Nautilus
1. Noun. Type genus and sole recent representative of the family Nautilidae.
Group relationships: Family Nautilidae, Nautilidae
Member holonyms: Chambered Nautilus, Nautilus, Pearly Nautilus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Nautilus
Literary usage of Genus Nautilus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Analyst: A Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, Natural History by William Holl, Neville Wood, Edward Mammatt (1839)
"There is one very interesting fact, with regard to the genus Nautilus, ...
Next in order to the genus Nautilus, we have mentioned one which will be new to ..."
2. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1891)
"Then follows the genus Nautilus, of which, according to a table given by the
author in ... It is true that there are often met with in the genus Nautilus ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"In the widest sense the genus Nautilus has existed unce the Ordovician (Silurian)
period, but the oldest types are not properly to be placed in the same ..."
4. Aide-mémoire to the Military Sciences: Framed from Contributions of Officers by Great Britain Army. Royal Engineers (1862)
"From these descriptions it is manifest that the genus Nautilus was still in a
highly developed state in the Eocene formation : it continued so in the ..."
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