shipworm

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Определение shipworm в Английский Язык Турецкий язык словарь

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(Hayvan Bilim, Zooloji) gemi kurdu

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Определение shipworm в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь

Any of several wormlike marine mollusks, of the family Teredinidae, that bore through the wooden hulls of ships and other woody material entering the sea

In our waters, however, the shipworm seldom attains a length of over a foot-and-a-half long.

Any of several wormlike marine mollusks, of the family Teredinidae, that bore through the wooden hulls of ships; their role in the marine ecosystem is in the recycling of woody material entering the sea

The shipworms burrow in wood, and are destructive to wooden ships, piles of wharves, etc

or pileworm Any of approximately 65 species (family Teredidae) of common marine bivalves that can severely damage wooden structures, including ship hulls and wharves. Its anterior end is covered by a shell; the rest is a tubelike structure, sometimes up to 6 ft (1.8 m) long. File-like ridges on its white shell cut into wood at 8-12 rasping motions a minute. It secretes lime to line its burrow, and its tubelike portion extends back to the burrow opening. It ingests food particles and oxygen from the water; some wood is also ingested as food

wormlike marine bivalve that bores into wooden piers and ships by means of drill-like shells

Any long, slender, worm-shaped bivalve mollusk of Teredo and allied genera

Связанные Термины

giant northwest shipworm

giant shipworm of the Pacific coast of North America

shipworms

plural of shipworm

shipworms

teredinidae

Расстановка переносов

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