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Meanings of teredo in English
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Usage of teredo in English
1
A salt-water creature very destructive to shipping and the wharves is the teredo, or ship-worm.
2
They were pierced in all parts by the teredo or worm which abounds in the tropical seas.
3
In what manner does the railway draw upon the forests?-thepaper-maker?-thefarmer?-the tanner?-thebeaver?-theteredo, or ship-worm
4
At Puerto Bello he was obliged to leave another vessel, for she had been riddled by the teredo.
5
They here remained until the 23rd, endeavouring to repair their vessels, which were fearfully pierced by the teredo.
6
Quatrefages proposed to destroy the teredo in harbors by impregnating the water with a mineral solution fatal to them.
7
Now the booming ground was empty, save for those decaying, teredo-eaten sticks, and the camp was a tumbledown ruin when he passed.
8
The teredo, so destructive to shipping, has been carried by the vessels whose wooden walls it mines to almost every part of the globe.
9
Teredos weaken them, submarine earthquakes, and carelessly dropped anchors from fishing vessels.
10
The piles that supported the wharves often needed renewing, being eaten by teredos.
11
The Teredo, or ship-worm, has two calcareous jaws, hemispherical, flat before, and angular behind.
12
The former he proposes to call the Teredo gigantea.
13
Right now there are millions of teredos off the Jersey coast, occasionally venturing as far as Bay Ridge, the Narrows, or Coney Island.
14
During certain seasons the pots are badly eaten by "worms," the shipworm (Teredo) or one of the species of small boring crustaceans.
Frequent collocations
Teredo through the time