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teredo

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Definitions

  1. typical shipworm

Word origin

From Latin terēdō (“woodworm”), from Ancient Greek τερηδών (terēdṓn, “wood-worm”). Compare Ancient Greek: τέρην (térēn, “smooth, gentle”).

Used in a sentence

  • Meet fell Teredo, as he mines the keel / With beaked head, and break his lips of steel […].
  • No timber that would stand the exposure to water as well as the ravages of white ants and the teredo, could be found.

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