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Terebra [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A genus of marine gastropods having a long, tapering spire. They belong to the Toxoglossa. Called also auger shell.

2. The boring ovipositor of a hymenopterous insect.

Terebrae [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Terebrant [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Boring, or adapted for boring; -- said of certain Hymenoptera, as the sawflies.

Terebrantia [Noun plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A division of Hymenoptera including those which have an ovipositor adapted for perforating plants. It includes the sawflies.

Terebras [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Terebrate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To bore; to perforate with a gimlet. [Little used.]

Terebrate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To perforate; to bore; to pierce.

Terebrating [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Boring; perforating; -- applied to molluskas which form holes in rocks, wood, etc.

2. Boring; piercing; -- applied to certain kinds of pain, especially to those of locomotor ataxia.

Terebration [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The act of boring. [Little used.]

Terebration [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The act of terebrating, or boring.

Terebratula [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A genus of brachiopods which includes many living and some fossil species. The larger valve has a perforated beak, through which projects a short peduncle for attachment. Called also lamp shell.

Terebratulae [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Terebratulid [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Any species of Terebratula or allied genera. Used also adjectively.

Terebratuliform [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having the general form of a terebratula shell.

Terebratulite [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Fossil terebratula, a kind of shell.