Definitions for nautilus

Overview of noun nautilus

The noun nautilus has 3 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)

1. nautilus, nuclear submarine, nuclear-powered submarine

(a submarine that is propelled by nuclear power)

2. paper nautilus, nautilus, Argonaut, Argonauta argo

(cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells)

3. chambered nautilus, pearly nautilus, nautilus

(cephalopod of the Indian and Pacific oceans having a spiral shell with pale pearly partitions)