1. Small destroyer that was the forerunner of modern destroyers; designed to destroy torpedo boats

Derived forms: torpedo-boat destroyers

Type of: destroyer, guided missile destroyer

Encyclopedia: Torpedo-boat destroyer

• family Characidae
• family Characinidae
• family Charadriidae
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