different between woody vs shipworm

English

Etymology

From Middle English woodi, wody, wodi, equivalent to wood +? -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?w?di/
• Rhymes: -?di
• Homophone: woodie

Adjective

woody (comparative woodier, superlative woodiest)

1. Covered in woods; wooded.
2. (obsolete) Belonging to the woods; sylvan.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iii:

     with the wooddie Nymphes when she did play, / Or when the flying Libbard she did chace, / She could them nimbly moue, and after fly apace.

3. Made of wood, or having wood-like properties.
4. (botany) Non-herbaceous.

5. (botany) Lignified.

Translations

Noun

woody (plural woodies)

1. Alternative form of woodie

See also

• wooden
• wooded

English

Etymology

ship +? worm

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???pw??(?)m/

Noun

shipworm (plural shipworms)

1. Any of several wormlike marine mollusks (not true worms) of the family Teredinidae, that bore through the wooden hulls of ships and other woody material immersed in salt water.
   • 1955, Rachel Carson, The Edge of the Sea,

     Old spars and water-soaked timbers cast on the beach are full of the workings of the shipworm—long cylindrical tunnels penetrating all parts of the wood.

   • 2002, Erkki Leppäkoski, Stephan Gollasch, Sergej Olenin, Invasive Aquatic Species of Europe: Distribution, Impacts, and Management,

     Even though mankind has tried to develop counter measures for thousands of years, still there is no easy solution to the shipworm problem in sight.

Hyponyms

• (molluscs in Teredinidae): Kuphus polythalamia (giant tube worm)

Translations

Further reading

• Shipworms on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Teredinidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Teredinidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• “shipworm”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.