Scaphopoda — noun small class of bilaterally symmetrical marine forms comprising the tooth shells • Syn: ↑class Scaphopoda • Hypernyms: ↑class • Member Holonyms: ↑Mollusca, ↑phylum Mollusca • Member Meronyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Scaphopoda — Sca*phop o*da, n. pl. [NL., from Gr. ska fh a boat + poda.] (Zo[ o]l.) 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 … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Scaphopoda — Kahnfüßer Antalis vulgaris Systematik Unterabteilung: Bilateria Überstamm … Deutsch Wikipedia
Scaphopoda — n. [Gr. skaphe, boat; pous, foot] A class of Mollusca containing the tusk or tooth shell that are bilaterally symmetrical with an elongate, gently curved, tubular shell open at both ends; an exclusively marine dweller … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
mollusk — molluskan, molluscan /meuh lus keuhn/, adj., n. mollusklike, adj. /mol euhsk/, n. any invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, typically having a calcareous shell of one, two, or more pieces that wholly or partly enclose the soft, unsegmented body,… … Universalium
tooth shell — noun any of various seashore mollusks having a tapering tubular shell open at each end and a foot pointed like a spade for burrowing • Syn: ↑tusk shell • Hypernyms: ↑scaphopod * * * noun 1. : a mollusk of the class Scaphopoda 2 … Useful english dictionary
Mollusca — noun gastropods; bivalves; cephalopods; chitons • Syn: ↑phylum Mollusca • Hypernyms: ↑phylum • Member Holonyms: ↑Animalia, ↑kingdom Animalia, ↑animal kingdom … Useful english dictionary
phylum Mollusca — noun gastropods; bivalves; cephalopods; chitons • Syn: ↑Mollusca • Hypernyms: ↑phylum • Member Holonyms: ↑Animalia, ↑kingdom Animalia, ↑animal kingdom … Useful english dictionary
scaphopod — /skaf euh pod /, n. 1. any mollusk of the class Scaphopoda, comprising the tooth shells. adj. 2. Also, scaphopodous /skeuh fop euh deuhs/. belonging or pertaining to the Scaphopoda. [1910 15; < NL Scaphopoda. See SCAPHO , POD] * * * … Universalium
scaphopod — noun burrowing marine mollusk • Hypernyms: ↑mollusk, ↑mollusc, ↑shellfish • Hyponyms: ↑tooth shell, ↑tusk shell • Member Holonyms: ↑Scaphopoda, ↑ … Useful english dictionary