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Definition: teredo
teredo
n : typical shipworm
[also:
teredines (pl)]
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Definition: Teredo
Teredo
\Te*re"do\, n.; pl. E.
Teredos, L.
Teredines. [L., a
worm that gnaws wood, clothes, etc.; akin to Gr. ?, L. terere
to rub.] (Zo["o]l.)
A genus of long, slender, wormlike bivalve mollusks which
bore into submerged wood, such as the piles of wharves,
bottoms of ships, etc.; -- called also
shipworm. See
Shipworm. See Illust. in Appendix.
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