ar·go·naut /ˈɑrgəˌnɔt, ˌnɑt/
Argo號的船員
Ar·go·naut 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.
2. 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.\= --D. S. Jordan.
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argonaut
n 1: someone engaged in a dangerous but potentially rewarding
adventure
2: (Greek mythology) one of the heroes who sailed with Jason on
the Argo in search of the Golden Fleece
3: cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate
papery spiral shells [syn: paper nautilus, nautilus, Argonauta
argo]