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Argonaut   /ˈɑrgənˌɔt/   Listen
Argonaut

noun
1.
Someone engaged in a dangerous but potentially rewarding adventure.
2.
(Greek mythology) one of the heroes who sailed with Jason in search of the Golden Fleece.
3.
Cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells.  Synonyms: Argonauta argo, nautilus, paper nautilus.



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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


Words linked to "Argonaut" :   Greek mythology, fictitious character, genus Argonauta, Argonauta argo, paper nautilus, fictional character, nautilus, character, adventurer, venturer, Argonauta, octopod


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