Okapi vs Nautilus - What's the difference?
okapi | nautilus |
A large ruminant mammal, Okapia johnstoni , found in the rainforests of the Congo, related to the giraffe, but with a much shorter neck, a reddish brown coat and zebra-like stripes on its hindquarters.
* 1904 , , "Reginald's Christmas Revel", Reginald :
A marine mollusc, of the family is the type genus.
* 1956 — , The City and the Stars , p 44
As nouns the difference between okapi and nautilus
is that okapi is okapi (mammal in tropical africa) while nautilus is a marine mollusc, of the family is the type genus.okapi
English
(wikipedia okapi)Noun
(en noun)- I used to listen to him with a rapt attention that I thought rather suited me, and then one day I quite modestly gave the dimensions of an okapi I had shot in the Lincolnshire fens.
nautilus
English
(wikipedia nautilus)Noun
(en-noun)- He was still prepared to go on collecting all that life could offer, like a chambered nautilus patiently adding new cells to its slowly expanding spiral.