Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A machine employed by the Romans in sieges to begin a breach in a wall, consisting of a long spear-like beam mounted on an axis, and worked in a groove by machinery.
- noun In entomology, the borer or modified ovipositor of various insects, and especially of the terebrant hymenopters. With this organ the insects puncture the places in which they lay their eggs.
- noun [capitalized] A genus of marine toxoglossate gastropods, having a long slender tapering spire, typical of the family Terebridæ; the auger-shells.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A genus of marine gastropods having a long, tapering spire. They belong to the Toxoglossa. Called also
auger shell . - noun (Zoöl.) The boring ovipositor of a hymenopterous insect.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
boring ovipositor of ahymenopterous insect .
Etymologies
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Latin, a borer.
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Examples
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_Turritella terebra_, and _Littorina littorea_, all existing shells, but all common also to at least the later deposits of the Crag.
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- Ut quae - dam tantum ejus cbirurgiae exempla producam, hydrocephalum externum incifione curandum fiia - det, internumoffe terebra perforato & exempto #
Institutiones historiae medicinae Johann Christian Gottlieb Ackermann 1792
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