Hyphenation of nautilus

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word nautilus? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

nau-tilus

Definitions of nautilus:

1.	A submarine that is propelled by nuclear power
2.	Cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells
3.	Cephalopod of the Indian and Pacific oceans having a spiral shell with pale pearly partitions

Synonyms of nautilus:

noun	nuclear submarine, nuclear-powered submarine, submarine, pigboat, sub, U-boat
noun	paper nautilus, Argonaut, Argonauta argo, octopod
noun	chambered nautilus, pearly nautilus, cephalopod, cephalopod mollusk

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