noun
- A submarine that is propelled by nuclear power.
- synonyms: nuclear submarine, nuclear-powered submarine
- Cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells.
- synonyms: paper nautilus, Argonaut, Argonauta argo
- Cephalopod of the Indian and Pacific oceans having a spiral shell with pale pearly partitions.
- synonyms: chambered nautilus, pearly nautilus
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