teredos

Moreover, quality timber often has a limited life: in tropical water teredos attack it, and in many coastal but arid regions (as the Red Sea region) the drying action of the sun seriously affects wooden craft pulled up on the beach.

Chapter 5 1973

Furthermore, in the tropics wood is subject to rot, insects, and teredos.

Chapter 4 1973

El ferrocemento no es susceptible al ataque de teredos (gusanos de barco), carcoma y otros peligros de los tropicos.

Chapter 13 1973

Ferrocement is free from attack by teredos (shipworms), wood rot, and other hazards of the tropics.

Chapter 3 1973

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.

Days of the Discoverers L. Lamprey 1910

The suit seeks to force the trust, and by extension taxpayers, to spend "at least $37.5 million" repairing damage its piers have sustained over the past two decades from small marine borers known as gribbles and teredos.

NYT > Home Page By CHARLES V. BAGLI 2012

The suit seeks to force the trust, and by extension taxpayers, to spend "at least $37.5 million" repairing damage its piers have sustained over the past two decades from small marine borers known as gribbles and teredos.

NYT > Home Page By CHARLES V. BAGLI 2012

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.

Bureaucracy Honor�� de Balzac 1824

Hoffman, of Berlin), and if we could magnify and then picture the teredos navalis, in other words, those ship-worms which brought

Bureaucracy Honor�� de Balzac 1824

150 ON THE TOrOGltAPHY AND GEOLOGY taining much fossilized wood, sometimes showing tubes of teredos.

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