Zoology. A genus of lamellibranch boring molluscs; esp. the ship-worm, T. navalis, well known for its destruction of submerged timbers in ships…

The teredo or ship-worm.

A ship-worm; ? the teredo.

A name for various long slender crustaceans and molluscs (e.g. Teredo navalis, the ship-worm) which destroy timber by boring. Also collective the worm…

A piddock. Later: a burrowing bivalve mollusc of the genus Pholas, esp. the common piddock, P. dactylus; (in form Pholas), the genus itself.

A piddock.

Any of various marine bivalve molluscs of the genus Pholas or the family Pholadidae containing it, which burrow in soft rock, wood, etc., and have…

= file-shell n. at compounds 2. Obsolete. rare.

A burrowing bivalve mollusc of the genus Pholas or family Pholadidae.

a marine invertebrate which bores into submerged wooden piles, etc.; esp. the shipworm, Teredo navalis.

a species of Pholas, so called from the roughness of its shell.

= file-shell n. at file, n.1 compounds 2. Obsolete.

any of the worm-shaped mollusks of the genus Teredo and allied genera, esp. T. navalis.

(a) a tube-worm of the family Terebellidae; (b) = pholas, n. (cf. rock borer n., stone-piercer n. at stone, n. compounds 2b).

A name given to the Myxine or Hag-fish; also to the Teredo or shipworm; and to various insects which bore through wood, etc.

= pholadid, n.