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[syn: Scaphopoda, class Scaphopoda]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Scaphopoda \Sca*phop"o*da\, n. pl. [NL., from Gr. ska`fh a boat
+ -poda.] (Zool.)
A class of marine cephalate Mollusca having a tubular shell
open at both ends, a pointed or spadelike foot for burrowing,
and many long, slender, prehensile oral tentacles. It
includes Dentalium, or the tooth shells, and other similar
shells. Called also Prosopocephala, and Solenoconcha.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Scaphopoda
n 1: small class of bilaterally symmetrical marine forms
comprising the tooth shells [syn: Scaphopoda, class
Scaphopoda]