Furthermore, in the tropics wood is subject to rot, insects, and teredos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 4] Reference

But now it is time to show another set of teredos, who burrowed and swarmed in the government offices where the principal scenes of our present study took place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bureaucracy] Reference

He now suggested to two of the pilots that they should report five of the ships to be in an unseaworthy condition from the borings of the teredos -- in those days sheathing for hulls had not been invented, and the ship-worm was a constant danger, in tropical waters especially.    From Wordnik.com.  [Days of the Discoverers] Reference

Keeping time to teredos borin '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wreck of the Green Cove] Reference

150 ON THE TOrOGltAPHY AND GEOLOGY taining much fossilized wood, sometimes showing tubes of teredos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference

Hoffman, of Berlin), and if we could magnify and then picture the teredos navalis, in other words, those ship-worms which brought.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bureaucracy] Reference

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