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‖ Terebella|tɛrɪˈbɛlə|
Pl. -æ.
[mod.L., dim. of terebra a borer.]
1. Zool. A genus of worms, typical of the Terebellidæ, a family of marine tubicolous polychætous annelids; a member of this genus.
1826Good Bk. Nat. (1834) II. 11 Another genus of molluscous worms is the terebella. 1857Wood Com. Obj. Sea Shore viii. 95 Sometimes the terebella becomes ambitious, and..affixes a stone of some size to his tube. 1874Carpenter Ment. Phys. i. ii. §43 (1879) 43 A Terebella (a marine Worm that cases its body in a sandy tube).
†2. Surg. = terebellum 1. Obs.
1860Mayne Expos. Lex., Terebella... Med., Surg. Old name of an instrument with which bones were pierced;..it was the trepan or trephine.
3. Entom. The ovipositor of a saw-fly.
1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. III. 391 Terebellæ, instruments by which the insect saws or bores a passage for its eggs. |