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Definition: Limnoria lignorum
Gribble
\Grib"ble\, n. [Cf. Prov. E. grib to bite.] (Zo["o]l.)
A small marine isopod crustacean (
Limnoria lignorum or
Limnoria terebrans), which burrows into and rapidly
destroys submerged timber, such as the piles of wharves, both
in Europe and America.
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