Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A worm or some similar animal, as a gribble or shipworm, found embedded in the timber of submerged piles. See Limnoria, Teredo.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The teredo.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
teredo .
Etymologies
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pile + worm
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