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Definitions
wormlike marine bivalve that bores into wooden piers and ships by means of drill-like shells
Word origin
From ship + worm.
Used in a sentence
“The Teredo, or ſhip-vvorm, has tvvo calcareous javvs, hemiſpherical, flat before, and angular behind. The ſhell is taper, vvinding, penetrating ſhips and ſubmarine vvood, and vvas brought from India into Europe,[…].”
“[W]e have suffered seriously in our dock yards and harbors by the operations of the shipworm, to which the soundest and hardest oak offers no impediment.”
“In 1980, divers discovered that Teredo navalis, a shipworm, had infested the timber support. Such was the damage, it left the viaduct at risk of being closed permanently – and with it, the entire line.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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