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Paper nautilus has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

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

2

A pelagic octopus of genus Argonauta, found in warm seas, whose females produce a paper-thin egg case resembling a shell into which she deposits her eggs.

See Also
octopus argonauta
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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
octopod
Rhyming Words
plus ulus hilus zelus pilus talus polus dolus zulus solus milus malus tolus palus bolus obelus bellus cyclus pullus mullus
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