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scaphopoda

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  1. 1. A class of class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/marine">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. Source: webster
  2. 2. A class of class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/marine">marine cephalate Mollusca having a tubular shellopen at both ends, a pointed or spadelike foot for burrowing, andmany long, slender, prehensile oral tentacles. It includes Dentalium,or the tooth shells, and other similar shells. Called alsoProsopocephala, and Solenoconcha. Source: adambom
  3. 3. n. small class of class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/bilaterally">bilaterally symmetrical marine forms comprising the tooth shells Source: ecdict

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