Nautilus - Law Dictionary Search Results
Nautiloid
Like or pertaining to the nautilus shaped like a nautilus shell...
Discoid
Having the form of a disk as those univalve shells which have the whorls in one plane so as to form a disk as the pearly nautilus...
Nautilite
A fossil nautilus...
Nautilus
The only existing genus of tetrabranchiate cephalopods About four species are found living in the tropical Pacific but many other species are found fossil The shell is spiral symmetrical and chambered or divided into several cavities by simple curved partitions which are traversed and connected together by a continuous and nearly central tube or siphuncle See Tetrabranchiata...
Polythalamous
Many chambered applied to shells of Foraminifera and cephalopods See Illust of Nautilus...
Siphoniferous
Siphon bearing as the shell of the nautilus and other cephalopods...
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