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Definition of Teredo
1. Noun. Typical shipworm.
Definition of Teredo
1. n. 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.
Definition of Teredo
1. Noun. the shipworms (of genus ''Teredo'') ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Teredo
1. a bivalve mollusk [n -DOS or -DINES]
Medical Definition of Teredo
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Origin: L, a worm that gnaws wood, clothes, etc.; akin to Gr, L. Terere to rub.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Teredo
Literary usage of Teredo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1862)
"Preliminary Report on the Best Mode of Preventing the Ravages of teredo and other
Animals in our Ships and Harbours. By J. GWYN JEFFREYS, FRS, FGS SINCE the ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1873)
"The Pholas penetrates stone as well as wood, but the loves most to burrow into
timber. The damage done to submerged timbers by the teredo is enc Fia. ..."
3. Handbook of Building Construction: Data for Architects, Designing and by George Albert Hool, Nathan Clarke Johnson (1920)
"It is doubtful if he could have recovered damage even if his house had been built
first instead of after the railroad, as was the case. 33. teredo. ..."
4. The Monthly Magazine by Richard Phillips, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) (1807)
"As bathers are thing-organs having an uncommon con- naked, tlie (harp-pointed
extremities formation. As the teredo gigantea might lacerate, ..."
5. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1842)
"On examining the shell of teredo navalis while in the wood. Sir Everard found
its external orifice very small, just large enough, in fact, to give a passage ..."
6. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1842)
"According to Mr. Hatchett's analysis, the shell of teredo navalis was ... found on
the Coast nf Sumatra, proving it to belong to a Species of teredo, ..."
7. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1864)
"Description of a new species of teredo, from New Bedford, Mass. ... This new
species of teredo differs from all the others in the very small proportionate ..."
8. A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Harbour Engineering by Brysson Cunningham (1908)
"HARBOUR ENGINEERING. young teredo attacks the wood in its immediate vicinity by
boring or tunnelling into it, principally in the direction of the grain. ..."
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