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(zoology) 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.
Use teredo when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Teredo means (zoology) A mollusc of the genus Teredo, especially of species Teredo navalis..
Common synonyms include shipworm, copperworm.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Meet fell Teredo, as he mines the keel / With beaked head, and break his lips of steel […].
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