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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 ship·worm /-ˌwɝm/
 船蛆

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ship·worm n. Zool. Any long, slender, worm-shaped bivalve mollusk of Teredo and allied genera. The shipworms burrow in wood, and are destructive to wooden ships, piles of wharves, etc. See Teredo.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 shipworm
      n : wormlike marine bivalve that bores into wooden piers and
          ships by means of drill-like shells [syn: teredinid]