shipworm

How To Use shipworm In A Sentence

• His vessels, rotted by shipworm, were abandoned in Jamaica, where Columbus was marooned for a year.
• His vessels, rotted by shipworm, were abandoned in Jamaica, where Columbus was marooned for a year.
• For example, bacteria living in the intestinal glands of a wood-boring mollusk known as the shipworm provide the animal with as much as one-third of its nitrogen.
• Although shipworms look like worms, they, like any good clam, have shells.
• These include cement, recycled plastics, and tropical hardwoods, such as greenheart, that are more resistant to shipworms than other woods are.
• Bacteria living in the intestinal glands of a wood-boring mollusk known as the shipworm provide the animal with as much as one-third of its nitrogen.
• To defend the region's well-preserved wrecks from shipworms, researchers have suggested draping submerged vessels in polypropylene covers or covering ships with seabed sediments and sandbags.
• They report on concretions from the Palaeogene London Clay of southern England that contain marine driftwood that had been extensively bored by shipworms.
• The biggest threat is an attack by shipworms - they can eat the whole thing.
• In early wooden ships, a sheathing of metallic copper was used to protect the timbers from being invaded by shipworms known as teredos - worms that bore into wood and weaken its structure.