teredo
noun
teredo is a noun meaning “A mollusc of the genus Teredo, especially of species Teredo navalis” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-E-R-E-D-O, and it appears about once in every 29 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of teredo is teredos or teredoes.
What does teredo mean?
noun
- 1
A mollusc of the genus Teredo, especially of species Teredo navalis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of teredo
- teredos plural
- teredoes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is teredo?
Teredo appears about once in every 29 million words in written English, the 163,711th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Teredo in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | taret |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does teredo come from?
From Latin terēdō (“woodworm”), from Ancient Greek τερηδών (terēdṓn, “wood-worm”). Compare Ancient Greek: τέρην (térēn, “smooth, gentle”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).