shipworm - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'shipworm' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Shipworm

[ n.]

- Any long, slender, worm-shaped bivalve mollusk of Teredo and allied genera. The shipworms burrow in wood, and are destructive to wooden ships, piles of wharves, etc. See Teredo.

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