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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 ar·go·naut /ˈɑrgəˌnɔt, ˌnɑt/
 Argo號的船員

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 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]