(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 3:05:59

Ship"worm` (?), n. Zool.

Any long, slender, worm-shaped bivalve mollusk of Teredo and allied genera. The shipworms burrow in wood, and are destructive to wooden ships, piles of wharves, etc. See Teredo.

 

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