skəˈfīd.(ˌ)ēz noun
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from scaph + -ites
: a genus (the type of the family Scaphitidae) comprising Cretaceous ammonoid cephalopods that have all the whorls coiled in an involute spiral except the last which is straight for a distance and then bent back toward the coiled part
• scaph·i·toid ˈskafəˌtȯid adjective