scaphopoda

1. 1.

   small class of bilaterally symmetrical marine forms comprising the tooth shells

   Synonymsclass Scaphopoda

   Broaderclass

   Part ofMollusca

Other forms of scaphopoda

plural

scaphopodas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about scaphopoda

What does scaphopoda mean?

scaphopoda means "small class of bilaterally symmetrical marine forms comprising the tooth shells".

How many syllables are in scaphopoda?

scaphopoda has 4 syllables: sca-pho-po-da. The stress falls on "pho".

What is another word for scaphopoda?

Close synonyms include class Scaphopoda. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is scaphopoda a common word?

scaphopoda is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.