Etymology

scaphopod

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Today it means: tusk shell Full definition →

Ancient Greek σκάφος
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromσκάφος“boat”
  2. English todayscaphopod

From Ancient Greek σκάφος (skáphos, “boat”) + -pod.

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekσκάφος all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.