(n) comprises some tropical American species usually placed in genus Masdevallia: diminutive plants with small flowers carried on one scape, Syn.genus Scaphosepalum
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53
n. [ Gr. ska`fh a boat + kefalh` head. ] (Anat.) A deformed condition of the skull, in which the vault is narrow, elongated, and more or less boat-shaped. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Gr. ska`fh boat + E. cerite. ] (Zool.) A flattened plate or scale attached to the second joint of the antennae of many Crustacea. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Gr. ska`fh boat + gna`qos jaw. ] (Zool.) A thin leafike appendage (the exopodite) of the second maxilla of decapod crustaceans. It serves as a pumping organ to draw the water through the gill cavity. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Gr. ska`fh a boat + -oid: cf. F. scaphoïde. ] (Anat.) Resembling a boat in form; boat-shaped. -- n. The scaphoid bone. [ 1913 Webster ]
Scaphoid bone(a)One of the carpal bones, which articulates with the radius; the radiale. (b)One of the tarsal bones; the navicular bone. See under Navicular. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. pl. [ NL., from Gr. ska`fh a boat + -poda. ] (Zool.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]
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