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teredos


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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Teredo  \Te*re"do\,  n.;  pl  E.  {Teredos},  L.  {Teredines}.  [L.,  a 
  worm  that  gnaws  wood,  clothes,  etc.;  akin  to  Gr  ?,  L.  terere 
  to  rub.]  (Zo["o]l.) 
  A  genus  of  long,  slender,  wormlike  bivalve  mollusks  which 
  bore  into  submerged  wood,  such  as  the  piles  of  wharves, 
  bottoms  of  ships,  etc.;  --  called  also  {shipworm}.  See 
  {Shipworm}.  See  Illust.  in  App. 




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