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"text": "The teredo navalis, or ship-worm, is seldom six inches in length, but the muscles and armour with which its head is provided enables it to penetrate readily into the stoutest oak-planks of a vessel, committing dreadful havoc among her timbers, and chiefly producing the necessity for her being copper-bottomed.",
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"text": "[W]e have suffered seriously in our dock yards and harbors by the operations of the shipworm, to which the soundest and hardest oak offers no impediment.",
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"ref": "2002, Kai N. Hoppe, “Teredo navalis – The Cryptogenic Shipworm”, in Erkki Leppäkoski, Stephan Gollasch, Sergej Olenin, editors, Invasive Aquatic Species of Europe: Distribution, Impacts, and Management, Dordrecht, South Holland: Springer Science+Business Media, →DOI, →ISBN, page 116:",
"text": "The shipworms, wood boring bivalves of the family Teredinidae, belong to the oldest invaders. […] Even though mankind has tried to develop counter measures for thousands of years, still there is no easy solution to the shipworm problem in sight.",
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"ref": "2004, Donald Launer, “The Lower Bay, Sandy Hook Bay, Raritan Bay, and Their Tributaries”, in A Cruising Guide to New Jersey Waters, revised edition, New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 39:",
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"ref": "1852 January 1, “Art. II.—Shell Fish: Their Ways and Works. An Introduction to Conchology, or Elements of the Natural History of Molluscous Animals. By George Johnston, M.D. LL.D. London, J. Van Voorst. [book review]”, in The Westminster Review, volume I (New Series; volume LVII overall), number CXI, London: John Chapman, […], →OCLC, page 55:",
"text": "[W]e have suffered seriously in our dock yards and harbors by the operations of the shipworm, to which the soundest and hardest oak offers no impediment.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1955, Rachel Carson, “The Rim of Sand”, in The Edge of the Sea, New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →OCLC, page 185:",
"text": "Old spars and water-soaked timbers cast on the beach are full of the workings of the shipworm—long cylindrical tunnels penetrating all parts of the wood. Usually nothing remains of the creatures themselves except occasional fragments of their small calcaerous shells; these proclaim that the shipworm is a true mollusk, despite its long, slender, and wormlike body.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2002, Kai N. Hoppe, “Teredo navalis – The Cryptogenic Shipworm”, in Erkki Leppäkoski, Stephan Gollasch, Sergej Olenin, editors, Invasive Aquatic Species of Europe: Distribution, Impacts, and Management, Dordrecht, South Holland: Springer Science+Business Media, →DOI, →ISBN, page 116:",
"text": "The shipworms, wood boring bivalves of the family Teredinidae, belong to the oldest invaders. […] Even though mankind has tried to develop counter measures for thousands of years, still there is no easy solution to the shipworm problem in sight.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2004, Donald Launer, “The Lower Bay, Sandy Hook Bay, Raritan Bay, and Their Tributaries”, in A Cruising Guide to New Jersey Waters, revised edition, New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 39:",
"text": "Once inside edible wood, the shipworm begins eating and growing, and some species, such as those in the Caribbean, can attain a length of over 3 feet. In our waters, however, the shipworm seldom attains a length of over a foot-and-a-half long.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2020 August 12, Andrew Mourant, “The Tide is Turning for a Victorian Wonder”, in Rail, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 51:",
"text": "In 1980, divers discovered that Teredo navalis, a shipworm, had infested the timber support. Such was the damage, it left the viaduct at risk of being closed permanently – and with it, the entire line.",
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}
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"Any of several wormlike marine molluscs (not true worms) of the family Teredinidae that bore through the wooden hulls of ships and other woody material immersed in salt water; specifically, the naval shipworm or turu (Teredo navalis), the type species of the genus Teredo."
],
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"word": "teredine"
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{
"word": "teredinid"
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{
"word": "termite of the sea"
}
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"code": "ceb",
"english": "infesting boats",
"lang": "Cebuano",
"sense": "any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae",
"word": "tamasok"
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"code": "ceb",
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"sense": "any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae",
"word": "tamilok"
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{
"code": "nl",
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"sense": "any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "paalworm"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae",
"word": "laivamato"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "taret"
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{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "broca"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Schiffsbohrmuschel"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Schiffsbohrwurm"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "tola'at oniyot",
"sense": "any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "תּוֹלַעַת אֳנִיוֹת"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "bat",
"sense": "any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "बत"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "giúrann"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bruma"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "teredine"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"sense": "any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae",
"word": "船喰虫"
},
{
"alt": "ふなくいむし",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "funakuimushi",
"sense": "any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae",
"word": "船食虫"
},
{
"alt": "ふなむし",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "funamushi",
"sense": "any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae",
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "船虫"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "bródski crv",
"sense": "any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "бро́дски црв"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae",
"word": "korotipa"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae",
"word": "korotupa"
},
{
"code": "nv",
"lang": "Navajo",
"sense": "any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae",
"word": "tsinaaʼeeł biyaʼ"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "gusano"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae",
"tags": [
"Brazil",
"masculine"
],
"word": "cupim-do-mar"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "turu"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "teredo"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "korabélʹnyj červʹ",
"sense": "any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "корабе́льный червь"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "šášenʹ",
"sense": "any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ша́шень"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "broma"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "skeppsmask"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "priiang",
"sense": "any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae",
"word": "เพรียง"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "bat",
"sense": "any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "بَت"
}
],
"word": "shipworm"
}
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