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
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MECEZA
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eruption
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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 When we leave the Palæozoic and enter the Mesozoic, though the Nautiloid shells still abound, we find them superseded, in great part, by a nobler form, that of the _Ammonitidæ_ (Figs.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).