Scaphopoda

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Scaphopoda
       n : small class of bilaterally symmetrical marine forms
           comprising the tooth shells [syn: {class Scaphopoda}]