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shipworm
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun shipworm has 1 sense
- shipworm(n = noun.animal) teredinid - wormlike marine bivalve that bores into wooden piers and ships by means of drill-like shells; Array is a kind of clam
is a member of family teredinidae, teredinidae
has particulars: teredo, bankia setaceae, giant northwest shipworm
CIDE DICTIONARY
shipworm, 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. [1913 Webster]
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