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Argonaut

[ UK /ˈɑːɡənˌɔːt/ ]
[ US /ˈɑɹɡəˌnɔt/ ]
NOUN
  1. (Greek mythology) one of the heroes who sailed with Jason in search of the Golden Fleece
  2. cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells

How To Use Argonaut In A Sentence

  • They found striking similarities between Argonaute structures and proteins that happened to exhibit a particular kind of "cooperative binding" known as allostery. EurekAlert! - Breaking News
  • Only female argonauts grow the shell-like structures, but males have very different bodies, presumably with different buoyancy issues.
  • Female argonauts tuck masses of tiny eggs into spare space in the structure, Vecchione notes, much as bottom-dwelling octopuses protect their eggs in rock crevices.
  • There are necklaces of gold papyrus blooms, rosettes, and argonauts, and polished amethyst, carnelian, and sardonyx beads. Minoans in Manhattan
  • Argonauts of the future, or shipwrecked sailors of the past, we move from actual space to imaginary space, from inwardness to outwardness, from intimacy to immensity.
  • These ammoniac egg cases/brood chambers closely resemble the female Argonauta shell, produced for this purpose by the adult argonaut.
  • By chopping up Argonaute proteins from fruit flies and testing each piece individually, the team showed that allostery stimulated tenfold the binding of the Argonaute and miRNA complex to messenger RNA. EurekAlert! - Breaking News
  • (argonauta), bia unam (murex), bia balang (cuprea), and many others may be added to the list. The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants
  • Long live his hollowed shipmate, the Argonaut's shamrock, appanage of a participate of your motherland's assassin! Why is There Scientist Instead of Wisdom?
  • The egg case secreted by the Cenozoic argonautids was shaped like Cretaceous ammonites, which their ancestors used to occupy and emend.
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