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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[NL., fr. Gr.

ξύλον

wood + [GREEK] to rub, wear out.]

(Zool.)

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.