genus nautilus

English Thesaurus

1. type genus and sole recent representative of the family Nautilidae (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	mollusk genus,
definition	:	a genus of mollusks (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	chambered nautilus, nautilus, pearly nautilus,
definition	:	cephalopod of the Indian and Pacific oceans having a spiral shell with pale pearly partitions (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	family nautilidae, nautilidae,
definition	:	spiral-shelled cephalopods (noun.animal)