Usually means: Wood-boring mollusks, also shipworms.
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  1. teredines: Merriam-Webster
  2. teredines: Collins English Dictionary
  3. teredines: Wiktionary
  4. teredines: Dictionary.com
  5. Teredines: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. Teredines: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. teredines: FreeDictionary.org

(Note: See teredo as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (teredo)

noun:  (zoology) A mollusc of the genus Teredo, especially the shipworm, Teredo navalis.
▸ Also see teredo


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