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Webster 1913 Edition

Terebra

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Ter′e-bra

,

Noun.

;

pl. E.

Terebras

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, L.

Terebrae

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.

[L., a borer.]

1.

(Zool.)

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

auger shell

.

2.

(Zool.)

The boring ovipositor of a hymenopterous insect.