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paper nautilus

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A cephalopod mollusk (Argonauta argo) with eight tentacles, the female of which inhabits a paper-thin shell that later acts as an egg case. Also called argonaut.

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paper nautilus - cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells Argonauta argo, nautilus, Argonaut octopod - a cephalopod with eight arms but lacking an internal shell Argonauta, genus Argonauta - type genus of the family Argonautidae: paper nautilus