Teredo

n.

1.

(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.

Noun

1.

teredo - typical shipworm

genus Teredo, shipworm, teredinid