| 单词 | pipe-worm |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspipe-worm ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Annelida > [noun] > class Chaetopoda > order Polychaeta > suborder Sabelliformia > member of sea-pipe1755 pipe-worm1774 tube-worm1813 tubicole1842 fan worm1851 tube-maker1888 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 48 Pipe-worms and other little animals fix their habitation to the oyster's sides. 1820 T. Tredgold Elem. Princ. Carpentry §356 The bottom of ships, and timbers exposed to the action of the sea, are often destroyed by the pipeworm, or teredo navalis of naturalists. 1865 Ferrum Timber Co. 16 This creature [sc. the Ship Worm], also variously called the Pile-Worm, and Pipe-Worm, is at first very small, but soon acquires considerable size, and is sometimes a foot or more long. 1915 N.E.D. at Tube sb. Tube-worm, a tubiculous worm; a pipe-worm. < as lemmas |
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