different between wooden vs shipworm

English

Alternative forms

• wodden (obsolete)

Etymology

From wood +? -en. Dates from 1530s, gradually replaced treen (“made from a tree”), from Middle English treen, from Old English triewen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?w?d?n/
• Rhymes: -?d?n

Adjective

wooden (comparative more wooden, superlative most wooden)

1. Made of wood.
2. (figuratively) As if made of wood; moving awkwardly, or speaking with dull lack of emotion.

Derived terms

• woodenness

Translations

Anagrams

• Ewondo

English

Etymology

ship +? worm

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???pw??(?)m/

Noun

shipworm (plural shipworms)

1. Any of several wormlike marine mollusks (not true worms) of the family Teredinidae, that bore through the wooden hulls of ships and other woody material immersed in salt water.
   • 1955, Rachel Carson, The Edge of the Sea,

     Old spars and water-soaked timbers cast on the beach are full of the workings of the shipworm—long cylindrical tunnels penetrating all parts of the wood.

   • 2002, Erkki Leppäkoski, Stephan Gollasch, Sergej Olenin, Invasive Aquatic Species of Europe: Distribution, Impacts, and Management,

     Even though mankind has tried to develop counter measures for thousands of years, still there is no easy solution to the shipworm problem in sight.

Hyponyms

• (molluscs in Teredinidae): Kuphus polythalamia (giant tube worm)

Translations

Further reading

• Shipworms on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Teredinidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Teredinidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• “shipworm”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.