Dan Distel is a shipworm biologist.
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Shipworm
//ˈʃɪpwɜːm//
Synonyms for "shipworm" (4 found)
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Noun(1 words)
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Noun(1 words)
Related words (2)
Noun(2 words)
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Translations
38 translations across 24 languages.
Catalan
2 entries- broma noun (any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae)
- corc marí noun (any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae)
Cebuano
2 entries- tamasok noun (any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae)
- tamilok noun (any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae)
Dutch
1 entries- paalworm noun (any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae)
Finnish
1 entries- laivamato noun (any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae)
French
1 entries- taret noun (any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae)
Galician
1 entries- broca noun (any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae)
German
2 entries- Schiffsbohrmuschel noun (any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae)
- Schiffsbohrwurm noun (any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae)
Hebrew
1 entries- תּוֹלַעַת אֳנִיוֹת noun (any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae)
Hindi
1 entries- बत noun (any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae)
Irish
3 entries- giúrann noun (any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae)
- gríorac noun (any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae)
- rincs noun (any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae)
Italian
2 entries- bruma noun (any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae)
- teredine noun (any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae)
Japanese
3 entries- 船喰虫 noun (any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae)
- 船虫 noun (any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae)
- 船食虫 noun (any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae)
Korean
1 entries- 좀조개 noun (any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae)
Macedonian
1 entries- бро́дски црв noun (any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae)
Māori
2 entries- korotipa noun (any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae)
- korotupa noun (any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae)
Navajo
1 entries- tsinaaʼeeł biyaʼ noun (any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae)
Polish
1 entries- świdrak noun (any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae)
Portuguese
4 entries- cupim-do-mar noun (any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae)
- gusano noun (any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae)
- teredo noun (any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae)
- turu noun (any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae)
Russian
2 entries- корабе́льный червь noun (any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae)
- ша́шень noun (any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae)
Spanish
1 entries- broma noun (any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae)
Swedish
1 entries- skeppsmask noun (any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae)
Thai
1 entries- เพรียง noun (any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae)
Urdu
1 entries- بَت noun (any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae)
Welsh
2 entries- llongbryf noun (any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae)
- taradr môr noun (any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
Ship-VVorms [running head] […] It is reported that thoſe VVorms vvhich get into a Ships bottom in the ſalt vvater, vvill dye in the freſh vvater; and that the freſh vvater VVorms vvill dye in ſalt vvater: but in brackiſh vvater both ſorts vvill increaſe prodigiouſly.
Source: wiktionary
The Ship-VVorm of Jamaica. This inſect is extremely deſtructive to all the ſhips that anchor for any time in the harbours of Jamaica, or in any other part vvithin the tropics: They cut vvith great facility through the planks, and burrovv a conſiderable vvay in the ſubſtance of them, incruſtating the ſides of all their holes vvith a ſmooth teſtaceous ſubſtance[…].
Source: wiktionary
The Teredo, or ſhip-vvorm, has tvvo calcareous javvs, hemiſpherical, flat before, and angular behind. The ſhell is taper, vvinding, penetrating ſhips and ſubmarine vvood, and vvas brought from India into Europe,[…].
Source: wiktionary
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