TEREDINIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Teredinidae mean? 

• TEREDINIDAE (noun)
  The noun TEREDINIDAE has 1 sense:

1. shipworms

  Familiarity information: TEREDINIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TEREDINIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shipworms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Teredinidae; Teredinidae

Hypernyms ("Teredinidae" is a kind of...):

mollusk family (a family of mollusks)

Meronyms (members of "Teredinidae"):

genus Teredo (type genus of the family Teredinidae)

shipworm; teredinid (wormlike marine bivalve that bores into wooden piers and ships by means of drill-like shells)

Bankia; genus Bankia (giant shipworms)

Holonyms ("Teredinidae" is a member of...):

Bivalvia; class Bivalvia; class Lamellibranchia; class Pelecypoda; Lamellibranchia (oysters; clams; scallops; mussels)