Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Scaphopoda

Scaphopoda , noun, plural

[New Latin, from Greek ska`fh a boat + -poda.]

(Zoology) 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.