teredo
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 7
- Letters
- 6
Definition of teredo
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A mollusc of the genus Teredo, especially of species Teredo navalis.
“Meet fell Teredo, as he mines the keel / With beaked head, and break his lips of steel […].”
“No timber that would stand the exposure to water as well as the ravages of white ants and the teredo, could be found.”
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Etymology
From Latin terēdō (“woodworm”), from Ancient Greek τερηδών (terēdṓn, “wood-worm”). Compare Ancient Greek: τέρην (térēn, “smooth, gentle”).
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