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Teredo

Webster's Dictionary

(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.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Teredo'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​t/teredo.html. 1828.