Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several small wood-boring marine isopod crustaceans of the genus Limnoria, especially L. lignorum, which often damage underwater wooden structures.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small isopod crustacean, Limnoria terebrans, belonging to the family Asellidæ.
- noun A shoot from a tree; a short cutting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A small marine isopod crustacean (
Limnoria lignorum orLimnoria terebrans ), which burrows into and rapidly destroys submerged timber, such as the piles of wharves, both in Europe and America.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of various
wood -boring marine crustaceans of thegenus Limnoria, especially Limnoria lignorum, which causedamage tounderwater wooden structures
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The gribble is found in the water chewing on rotting logs, boats, and docks, and to this point it has been considered an annoying pest.
Tiny Gribble May Hold Key To Efficient Biofuel Conversion | Inhabitat 2010
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The scientists reckon that information learned from the gribble could increase the efficiency of biofuel conversion by a factor of 6, making biofuels even more cost effective and utilizing non-food crops.
Tiny Gribble May Hold Key To Efficient Biofuel Conversion | Inhabitat 2010
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Or, the gribble, an even smaller wood-boring marine crustacean, whose unique ability to digest cellulose and turn it into energy-rich sugars could provide a key to converting waste products into biofuel.
Peter Seligmann: America's Commitment to Nature: Another Endangered Species? Peter Seligmann 2010
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Or, the gribble, an even smaller wood-boring marine crustacean, whose unique ability to digest cellulose and turn it into energy-rich sugars could provide a key to converting waste products into biofuel.
Peter Seligmann: America's Commitment to Nature: Another Endangered Species? Peter Seligmann 2010
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Or, the gribble, an even smaller wood-boring marine crustacean, whose unique ability to digest cellulose and turn it into energy-rich sugars could provide a key to converting waste products into biofuel.
Peter Seligmann: America's Commitment to Nature: Another Endangered Species? Peter Seligmann 2010
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Scientists hope to replicate the incredible enzyme used by the gribble in order to produce ethanol fuel from the organic matter.
Tiny Gribble May Hold Key To Efficient Biofuel Conversion | Inhabitat 2010
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Razzfrazzin gribble-grabble blargnashkrag rargenfarlarb!
Bush Acknowledges Tough Economic Times - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Since I don't happen to have a copy on me at the moment, I'd better get some hot dog juice ready for the gribble-n-woof twins before they wake up from their nap.
haloaskew Diary Entry haloaskew 2006
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“Shut up, you overgrown lummox,” snapped the gribble.
Stone and Anvil Peter David 2003
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He fell heavily to the floor, and the gribble fell off his shoulder and rolled up into a ball.
Stone and Anvil Peter David 2003
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Another species, crustaceans called gribbles, were also eating the wood.
Shipwreck of Captain Cook’s Endeavour being eaten by ‘termites of the ocean’, expert says Tory Shepherd 2022
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