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Argonaut   /ˈɑrgənˌɔt/   Listen
noun
Argonaut  n.  
1.
Any one of the legendary Greek heroes who sailed with Jason, in the Argo, in quest of the Golden Fleece.
2.
(Zool.) A cephalopod of the genus Argonauta.
3.
One of those who went to California in search of gold shortly after it was discovered there in 1848. (U. S.) "The "Argonauts of '49" were a strong, self-reliant, generous body of men."





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... sign of good luck. Aristotle, Athenaeus, Pliny, and Oppian studied its habits and lavished on its behalf all the scientific poetry of Greece and Italy. They called it "nautilus" and "pompilius." But modern science has not endorsed these designations, and this mollusk is now known by the name argonaut. ...
— 20000 Leagues Under the Seas • Jules Verne


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