: either of two small wood-boring marine isopods (Limnoria lignorum and L. tripunctata)
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The two most common borers are a kind of shipworm called Teredo navalis, which is actually a wormlike clam, and tiny crustaceans known as gribbles.—New York Times, 13 Sep. 2019 The scientists discovered that gribbles use hemocyanins to attack the strong bonds of lignin.—David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 5 Dec. 2018 Deep-sea wood borers (Xylophaga, a genus of bivalve mollusks) take over where shallow water gribbles and shipworms left off.—Brian Payton, Smithsonian, 9 Feb. 2018
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