Teredinidae

noun

shipworms

• Syn: ↑family Teredinidae

• Hypernyms: ↑mollusk family

• Member Holonyms: ↑Bivalvia, ↑class Bivalvia, ↑Lamellibranchia, ↑class Lamellibranchia, ↑class Pelecypoda

• Member Meronyms: ↑genus Teredo, ↑shipworm, ↑teredinid, ↑Bankia, ↑genus Bankia

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\\ˌterəˈdinəˌdē\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Teredin-, Teredo, type genus + -idae

: a family of marine bivalve mollusks (order Eulamellibranchia) that live in burrows (as in wood or clay) which they rasp out with their small trilobed shells and line with a calcareous secretion, are very destructive to marine wooden constructions (as ships and wharves), and are vermiform with very long siphons united through most of their length — see bankia, shipworm, teredo; compare pholas