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(n.) 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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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Shipworm'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​s/shipworm.html. 1828.
 
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