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Definition of Argonauta argo

1. Noun. Cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Argonauta Argo

Literary usage of Argonauta argo

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sketches of Creation: A Popular View of Some of the Grand Conclusions of the by Alexander Winchell (1870)
"The Paper Nautilus (argonauta argo). wafted over the placid surface of a summer sea. With tiny sail upraised, the favoring breeze bears him securely onward ..."

2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria by Royal Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Vic.), Royal Society of Victoria (1897)
"argonauta argo, Linné. 1758. argonauta argo, Linn. Syst. Nat., ed 10, p. 708. 1769. ... argonauta argo, Tryon. Man. Conch., vol. i., p. 138, pi. 47, f. ..."

3. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1830)
"... and on the animal of argonauta argo.—The well-known Professor Stefano delle ... and ova of the argonauta argo, he considered particularly interesting, ..."

4. A Manual of the Anatomy of Invertebrated Animals by Thomas Henry Huxley (1888)
"argonauta argo.—A, female with the expanded arms in their natural position, ... In argonauta argo (Figs. 132133), it is the third arm on the left side which ..."

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