shipworm
Noun
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Noun
shipworm (plural shipworms)
- Any of several wormlike marine mollusks (not true worms) of the family Teredinidae, that bore through the wooden hulls of ships and other woody material immersed in salt water.
- 1955, Rachel Carson, The Edge of the Sea,
- Old spars and water-soaked timbers cast on the beach are full of the workings of the shipworm—long cylindrical tunnels penetrating all parts of the wood.
- 2002, Erkki Leppäkoski, Stephan Gollasch, Sergej Olenin, Invasive Aquatic Species of Europe: Distribution, Impacts, and Management,
- Even though mankind has tried to develop counter measures for thousands of years, still there is no easy solution to the shipworm problem in sight.
- 1955, Rachel Carson, The Edge of the Sea,
- French: taret
- German: Schiffsbohrmuschel, Schiffsbohrwurm
- Italian: teredine
- Portuguese: gusano
- Russian: корабе́льный червь
- Spanish: broma
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