Waldo

A play on the US name of the children's book series Where’s Waldo?[1].

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1. A taxonomic genus within the family Lasaeidae – small marine clams.

• Sometimes placed in families Galeommatidae or Montacutidae, both also in superfamily Galeommatoidea

• (genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Protostomia - infrakingdom; Spiralia - superphylum; Mollusca - phylum; Bivalvia - class; Autobranchia - subclass; Heteroconchia - superorder; Veneroida - order; Galeommatoidea - superfamily; Lasaeidae - family

• (genus): Waldo parasiticus - type species; see Waldo at World Register of Marine Species for others

• Waldo (bivalve) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Waldo on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Waldo on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Waldo at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Waldo at World Register of Marine Species

From the obsolete English given name Waltheof, from Old English weald (“power”) + þēof (“thief”).

Waldo

1. A male given name, in modern American use transferred back from the surname.
   • 2002 Annie Proulx, That Old Ace in the Hole, →ISBN, page 217:

     He was our first baby, born September 4, 1939, our only boy. Named Waldo after a kind of bakin powder I liked. 'Waldo's Cream Powder.'

2. A surname​ derived from the given name.

• Waldo County

• Waldo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• woald

Borrowed from English Waldo.

Waldo

1. A male given name