Crossword-Solution: TEREDO
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Teredo | n. | A genus of long, slender, wormlike bivalve mollusks which bore into submerged wood, such as the piles of wharves, bottoms of ships, etc.; -- called also shipworm. See Shipworm. See Illust. in App. |
We have 10 clues for the answer “TEREDO”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Mollusk called shipworm. | 1 answer |
| Mollusk that bores into wood. | 1 answer |
| Shipworn. | 1 answer |
| marine mollusc that bores into and destroys submerged timber | 1 answer |
| Shipworm | 2 answers |
| ship worm | 2 answers |
| worm ship | 2 answers |
| sea worm | 7 answers |
| BIVALVIA | 7 answers |
| marine worm | 12 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZEMECA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with TEREDO (5)
The ships were pierced by the teredo, which eats through thick timbers, and is so destructive that the seamen of later times have learned to sheath the hulls of their vessels with copper.
Quatrefages has shown in the case of the Teredo,[12] as did formerly Prevost and Dumas with other animals, that more than one spermatozoon is requisite to fertilise an ovum.
And then you must consider taxes and depreciation, and sooner or later, if she lies in the mud long enough, the Teredo will eat her up; so it occurred to me that you might be glad to sell.
The teredo, so destructive to shipping, has been carried by the vessels whose wooden walls it mines to almost every part of the globe.
Quatrefages proposed to destroy the teredo in harbors by impregnating the water with a mineral solution fatal to them.
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Appears in: Crossroads, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 15 times in crossword archives (1953–2014).