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auger-fish

auger-fish noun: a shipworm of the genus Teredo, most commonly Teredo navalis^(WP WSp Commons).

Noun

auger-fish

  1. (Cornwall, dialectal) A shipworm of the genus Teredo, most commonly Teredo navalis^(WP WSp Commons).

Origin of auger-fish

Named because of its timber-boring habit, like an auger.

Questions about auger-fish

What does auger-fish mean?
Auger-fish means a shipworm of the genus Teredo, most commonly Teredo navalis^(WP WSp Commons).
What part of speech is auger-fish?
Auger-fish is a noun.

Words near auger-fish in the dictionary

  1. Auger electron spectroscopy
  2. Auger electrons
  3. auger in
  4. Auger shower
  5. Auger showers
  6. auger-fish
  7. Auger-Meitner effect
  8. augered
  9. augered in
  10. augerer
  11. augerers

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