معنی کلمه :‌ teredo

Of or pertaining to the clergy; clerical; clerkily; learned. [Obs.] Milton.

A genus of long, slender, wormlike bivalve mollusks which bore into submerged wood, such as the piles of wharves, bottoms of ships, etc.; -- called also shipworm. See Shipworm. See Illust. in App.