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SCAPHOPOD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Burrowing marine mollusk
Classified under:
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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