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Definition of Chambered nautilus
1. Noun. Cephalopod of the Indian and Pacific oceans having a spiral shell with pale pearly partitions.
Generic synonyms: Cephalopod, Cephalopod Mollusk
Group relationships: Genus Nautilus
Definition of Chambered nautilus
1. Noun. A marine mollusc, of the family ''Argonautidae'' native to the Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean, which has tentacles and a spiral shell with a series of air-filled chambers. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chambered Nautilus
Literary usage of Chambered nautilus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"THE chambered nautilus ; is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the
unshadowed main,— The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its ..."
2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES 801 THE chambered nautilus THIS is the ship of pearl, which,
poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main, — The venturous bark that flings ..."
3. The Little Book of American Poets, 1787-1900 by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse (1915)
"THE chambered nautilus THIS is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the
unshadowed main, — The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind ..."
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