teredo
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of teredo
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin terēdō < Greek terēdṓn wood-boring worm
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Matters reached crisis-point in the early 1980s, when it was discovered that the enormous wooden piles which hold up the entire structure were infested with teredo shipworm.
From BBC • Sep. 11, 2021
Quatrefages proposed to destroy the teredo in harbors by impregnating the water with a mineral solution fatal to them.
From The Earth as Modified by Human Action by Marsh, George P.
In what manner does the railway draw upon the forests?—the paper-maker?—the farmer?—the tanner?—the beaver?—the teredo, or ship-worm?
From Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges by Redway, Jacques W. (Jacques Wardlaw)
There was nothing of which the Norsemen were more afraid than of the teredo, or shipworm, which gnaws the wood of ships.
From Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic by Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
"I am a teredo," replied the little muffled voice.
From The Ravens and the Angels With Other Stories and Parables by Charles, Elizabeth Rundle
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
