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- English Word Terebra Definition A genus of marine gastropods having a long, tapering spire. They belong to the Toxoglossa. Called also auger shell.
- English Word Terebra Definition The boring ovipositor of a hymenopterous insect.
- English Word Terebrae Definition of Terebra
- English Word Terebrant Definition Boring, or adapted for boring; -- said of certain Hymenoptera, as the sawflies.
- English Word Terebrantia Definition A division of Hymenoptera including those which have an ovipositor adapted for perforating plants. It includes the sawflies.
- English Word Terebras Definition of Terebra
- English Word Terebrate Definition To perforate; to bore; to pierce.
- English Word Terebrating Definition Boring; perforating; -- applied to molluskas which form holes in rocks, wood, etc.
- English Word Terebrating Definition Boring; piercing; -- applied to certain kinds of pain, especially to those of locomotor ataxia.
- English Word Terebration Definition The act of terebrating, or boring.
- English Word Terebratula Definition A genus of brachiopods which includes many living and some fossil species. The larger valve has a perforated beak, through which projects a short peduncle for attachment. Called also lamp shell.
- English Word Terebratulae Definition of Terebratula
- English Word Terebratulid Definition Any species of Terebratula or allied genera. Used also adjectively.
- English Word Terebratuliform Definition Having the general form of a terebratula shell.
- English Word Teredine Definition A borer; the teredo.
- English Word Teredines Definition of Teredo
- English Word Teredo Definition 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.
- English Word Teredos Definition of Teredo
- English Word Terephthalate Definition A salt of terephthalic acid.
- English Word Terephthalic Definition Of, pertaining to, or designating, a dibasic acid of the aromatic series, metameric with phthalic acid, and obtained, as a tasteless white crystalline powder, by the oxidation of oil of turpentine; -- called also paraphthalic acid. Cf. Phthalic.