paper nautiluses

A form of paper nautilus — A pelagic octopus of genus Argonauta, found in warm seas, whose females produce a paper-thin egg case resembling a shell into which she deposits her eggs.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of paper nautilus
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