Te·re·do n.; pl. E. Teredos L. Teredines Zool. 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 Appendix.
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teredo
n : typical shipworm
[also: teredines (pl)]