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   Teredo , n.; pl. E. Teredos , L. Teredines . [L., a worm that gnaws wood, clothes, etc.; akin to Gr. , L. terere to rub.] (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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