Lexicographical Neighbors of Seaworm
Literary usage of Seaworm
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A New Account of the East Indies: Giving an Exact and Copious Description of by Alexander Hamilton (1744)
"... and that the SeaWorm eats Co greedily Ships Bottoms, that in three or four
Months they eat quite thro', and that there is Abundance of Rice and other ..."
2. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th Series by California academy of sciences (1875)
"... portions of the aerial roots, or descending stalks, of the Banyan Tree ; small
greenish Pebbles ; specimens (fragments) of a species of seaworm ..."
3. De Bow's Commercial Review of the South & West by James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow (1846)
"It is the only wood known to withstand the action of the seaworm, and is therefore
well adapted for wharves and other constructions exposed to the sea ..."
4. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania by Royal Society of Tasmania (1898)
"... in plain English, a species of seaworm. We found that in 21 months to two
years' time this ravaging little animal completely honeycombed an 18-inch log ..."
5. The Philippines and the Far East by Homer Clyde Stuntz (1904)
"It is impervious to white ants because of a peculiar acid in the sap. It is also
immune to the seaworm, and resists climatic action better than any other ri ..."
6. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation by James William Tutt (1890)
"If placed in a cage with birch, rose, and seaworm-wood, they show a marked
preference for the rose and birch ..."
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