Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Scaphopda \Sca*phop"*da\, n. pl. [NL., from Gr. ska`fh a boat +
   -poda.] (Zo["o]l.)
   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}.