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SCAPHOPOD

• SCAPHOPOD (noun)
The noun SCAPHOPOD has 1 sense:

1. burrowing marine mollusk

Familiarity information: SCAPHOPOD used as a noun is very rare.

• SCAPHOPOD (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Burrowing marine mollusk

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("scaphopod" is a kind of...):

mollusc; mollusk; shellfish (invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "scaphopod"):

tooth shell; tusk shell (any of various seashore mollusks having a tapering tubular shell open at each end and a foot pointed like a spade for burrowing)

Holonyms ("scaphopod" is a member of...):

class Scaphopoda; Scaphopoda (small class of bilaterally symmetrical marine forms comprising the tooth shells)

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Useful links:
Meaning of mollusc
Meaning of mollusk
Pronunciation of shellfish
Meaning of tusk shell
Meaning of class Scaphopoda

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