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Definition of Nautili
1. nautilus [n] - See also: nautilus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nautili
Literary usage of Nautili
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology by William Buckland (1841)
"... should have been again adopted in some of the most recent species of fossil
nautili, in order to afford similar compensation for weakness that would ..."
2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1830)
"... throughout the whole earth, the temperature was the same, or that it has
undergone a series of successive alterations. The nautili and ..."
3. The Sea and Its Living Wonders by Georg Hartwig (1892)
"... Use to Man—Their Eggs.—Enormous size of several specie«. —The fabulous
Kraken.—The Argonaut.—The nautili.—The Cephalopods of the Primitive ..."
4. A Classical and Topographical Tour Through Greece, During the Years 1801 by Edward Dodwell (1819)
"... at Messina—Departure for Civita Vecchia—Becalmed off the Lipari Islands—Volcano
of Stromboli—Turtles, nautili ..."
5. Thoughts on a Pebble, Or, A First Lesson in Geology by Gideon Algernon Mantell (1849)
"Fossil nautili. The beauty, elegant form, and remarkable internal structure of
the shell of the Nautilus, have rendered it in all ages an object of ..."
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