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Thesaurus: shipworm

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.

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  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.
  2. n. wormlike marine bivalve that bores into wooden piers and ships by means of drill-like shells
  3. 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.
  4. Any long, slender, worm-shaped bivalve mollusk of Teredo andallied genera. The shipworms burrow in wood, and are destructive towooden ships, piles of wharves, etc. See Teredo.
  5. n:100 n. wormlike marine bivalve that bores into wooden piers and ships by means of drill-like shells