Scaphopoda

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Scaphopoda has 1 sense

scaphopoda(n = noun.animal) class scaphopoda - small class of bilaterally symmetrical marine forms comprising the tooth shells; Array

is a member of mollusca, phylum mollusca

is a kind of class

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CIDE DICTIONARY

Scaphopoda, n. pl. [NL., from Gr. ska`fh a boat + -poda.].

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]

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