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teredo(dictionary)

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teredo noun. . LME.
[Latin from Greek teredon, from base of teirein rub hard, wear away, bore.]
Zoology. Orig., any wood-boring invertebrate animal. Now spec. a boring bivalve mollusc of the genus Teredo (see shipworm s.v. SHIP noun).