head-foot
Zoology
noun
(In molluscs) the soft structure lying below or anterior to the visceral mass, consisting of the head merging into the protrusible foot (in a gastropod) or into the tentacles (in a cephalopod).
Origin
1920s; earliest use found in Encyclopaedia Britannica. From head + foot, after head-footed.
- penalty box
- penalty card
- penalty-carrier
- penalty clause
- penalty day
- penalty double
- penalty envelope
- penalty goal
- penalty kick
- penalty kill
- penalty killer
- penalty killing
- penalty line
- penalty pass
- penalty point
- penalty rate
- penalty shoot-out
- penalty shot
- penalty spot
- penalty try
- penance
- pen and ink
- pen-and-inkery
- pen and inkhorn
- pen-and-paper