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Definition of Shipworm
1. Noun. Wormlike marine bivalve that bores into wooden piers and ships by means of drill-like shells.
Generic synonyms: Clam
Group relationships: Family Teredinidae, Teredinidae
Specialized synonyms: Teredo, Bankia Setaceae, Giant Northwest Shipworm
Definition of Shipworm
1. n. Any long, slender, worm-shaped bivalve mollusk of Teredo and allied genera. The shipworms burrow in wood, and are destructive to wooden ships, piles of wharves, etc. See Teredo.
Definition of Shipworm
1. Noun. Any of several wormlike marine mollusks (not true worms) of the family ''Teredinidae'', that bore through the wooden hulls of ships and other woody material entering the sea. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shipworm
1. a wormlike mollusk [n -S]
Medical Definition of Shipworm
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Shipworm
Literary usage of Shipworm
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Homes Without Hands: Being a Description of the Habitations of Animals by John George Wood (1866)
"shipworm. The ravages committed by this creature are almost incredible. Wood of
every description is devoured by the shipworm, whose tunnels are frequently ..."
2. Strange Dwellings: Being a Description of the Habitations of Animals by John George Wood (1872)
"The shipworm (Teredo navalis], on the contrary, always burrows with the grain,
... At first sight, few would perceive that the shipworm belongs to the same ..."
3. Wood and Other Organic Structural Materials by Charles Henry Snow (1917)
"Other- then but little evidence that the picture shows the siphons as they
consecutive days of warm weather, jular, wrinkled membrane that ex- the shipworm ..."
4. Wood and Other Organic Structural Materials by Charles Henry Snow (1917)
"It attacks the surface, while the shipworm takes away from the interior of the
woodwork. v The numberless, smooth, clean-cut galleries arc close together ..."
5. Wood and Other Organic Structural Materials by Charles Henry Snow (1917)
"It attacks the surface, while the shipworm takes away from the interior of the
woodwork. The numberless, smooth, clean-cut galleries are close together and ..."
6. Wood and Other Organic Structural Materials by Charles Henry Snow (1917)
"The shipworm is sustained, at least for the most part, by microscopic life ...
from that of a shipworm in that its tunnels terminate on the surface of the ..."
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