teredo

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: te=re=do

CIDE DICTIONARY

teredo, n. [L., a worm that gnaws wood, clothes, etc.; akin to Gr. , L. terere to rub.].

 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.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

teredo, n. (pl. -os) any bivalve mollusc of the genus Teredo, esp. T. navalis, that bores into wooden ships etc. Also called SHIPWORM.

Etymology

L f. Gk teredon f. teiro rub hard, wear away, bore