NOUN
- cephalopod of the Indian and Pacific oceans having a spiral shell with pale pearly partitions
How To Use pearly nautilus In A Sentence
- Polycoa; those creatures which fabricate the lamp-shells, and are called Brachiopoda; the pearly Nautilus, and all animals allied to it; and all the forms of sea-urchins and star-fishes. Autobiography and Selected Essays
- The pearly nautilus is an exception to most generalizations about cephalopods.
- Among molluscs, the Ammonites, related to the modern Pearly Nautilus, are an example of a race very numerous and varied during all the periods of the Reptilian Era, but disappearing at its close, leaving only a few collateral descendants in the squids, cuttlefish and nautili of the modern seas. Dinosaurs With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections
- Such are the corals; those corallines which are called Polycoa; those creatures which fabricate the lamp-shells, and are called Brachiopoda; the pearly Nautilus, and all animals allied to it; and all the forms of sea-urchins and star-fishes. Autobiography and Selected Essays
