| 单词 | marine borer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmarine borer marine borer n. (a) any of various marine crustaceans and molluscs, such as the shipworm, Teredo navalis, and the gribble, Limnoria lignorum, which tunnel into timber that is exposed to sea water; (b) the oyster drill, Urosalpinx cinerea; = drill n.2 2. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Muricidae > member of murrey1579 murex1589 dog whelk1823 dogwinkle1856 marine borer1874 oyster drill1877 drill1886 1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 577/1 Clout-nail,..one with a large flat head. Such are used to stud timbers exposed to the action of marine borers. 1941 Sun (Baltimore) 29 Nov. 1/3 Watermen reported the marine borer, or drill, is killing off young bivalves as never before. 1975 New Yorker 5 May 90/2 The improvement is such that small water animals called marine borers..are beginning to thrive and to bore away at the city's piers. 1984 A. C. Duxbury & A. Duxbury Introd. World's Oceans xv. 489 (caption) Unprotected wood, like driftwood, is subject to destruction by marine borers. < as lemmas |
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