Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

paper nautilus

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.87 in modern English

Syllables: pa-per -nau-tilus
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Inflected Forms

paper nautiluses (plural) paper nautili (plural)

Synonyms

argonaut nautilus argonauta argo

Questions

What does paper nautilus mean?: 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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