Crossword-Solution: NAUTILOID
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Nautiloid | a. | Like or pertaining to the nautilus; shaped like a nautilus shell. |
| Nautiloid | n. | A mollusk, or shell, of the genus Nautilus or family Nautilidae. |
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| Like some mollusks | 1 answer |
| type of mollusc | 5 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Hint 2 anagram
EGAAT
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with NAUTILOID (5)
Considering the great specialization, however, and high degree of organization of the Cephalopods, it is evident that the earliest Nautiloid whose remains are known to us must have had a long evolutionary history behind it, and such metamerism as exists may have been developed in the course of its own history.
GLOBIGERINIDACEAE.--Shells vitreous, coarsely perforated; chambers few spheroidal rapidly increasing in size; arranged in a trochoid or nautiloid spiral.
Triassic.] When we leave the Palæozoic and enter the Mesozoic, though the Nautiloid shells still abound, we find them superseded, in great part, by a nobler form, that of the _Ammonitidæ_ (Figs.
This type admits of all the same variety of straight, bent, and curled forms with the simpler Nautiloid type, and some of the species are of great size, Ammonites being known three feet or more in diameter.
From the fact that _Aplysia_ commences its life as a free-swimming veliger with a nautiloid shell not enclosed in any way by the border of the mantle, it is clear that the enclosure of the shell in the adult is a secondary process.
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Appears in: NY Sun.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2004).