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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A genus of marine bivalves closely allied to Teredo, and equally destructive to timber. One species (
Xylotrya fimbriata ) is very common on the Atlantic coast of the United States.
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