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Definition of Shipworms
1. shipworm [n] - See also: shipworm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shipworms
Literary usage of Shipworms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wood and Other Organic Structural Materials by Charles Henry Snow (1917)
"Some shipworms arc found, although they are much less active, ... Some shipworms
thrive in pure sea water, while others do well in brackish, impure, ..."
2. Wood and Other Organic Structural Materials by Charles Henry Snow (1917)
"Some shipworms are found, although they are much less active, ... Some shipworms
thrive in pure sea water, while others do well in brackish, impure, ..."
3. Wood and Other Organic Structural Materials by Charles Henry Snow (1917)
"Some shipworms are found, although they are much less active, ... Some shipworms
thrive in pure sea water, while others do well in brackish, impure, ..."
4. Wood and Other Organic Structural Materials by Charles Henry Snow (1917)
"Some shipworms arc found, although they are much less active, ... Some shipworms
thrive in pure sea water, while others do well in brackish, impure, ..."
5. Report of Meeting by ANZAAS, ANZAAS. (1901)
"The nomenclature of the Australasian shipworms is in a state of considerable
confusion, ... In engineers' reports and similar documents, all shipworms are ..."
6. Johnson's Materials of Construction by John Butler Johnson, Morton Owen Withey (1919)
"to their shape they are frequently called " shipworms. ... shipworms infest warm
salt water or brackish waters and are said to prefer calcareous shores. ..."
7. Bulletins of American Paleontology by Cornell University, Paleontological Research Institution (1895)
"A new classification of the shipworms and descriptions of some new wood-boring
mollusks. Biol. Soc. Washington, Proc., vol. 34, pp. 25-32. 1922. ..."
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