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Wooden vs Shipworm - What's the difference?

wooden | shipworm |

As an adjective wooden

is made of wood.

As a noun shipworm is

any of several wormlike marine mollusks (not true worms) of the family , that bore through the wooden hulls of ships and other woody material immersed in salt water.

wooden

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Made of wood.
  • * , chapter=12
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.}}
  • (label) As if made of wood, moving awkwardly, unmoving.

    • Anagrams

    * English adjectives ending in -en

    shipworm

    English

    (wikipedia shipworm) (Teredinidae)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of several wormlike marine mollusks (not true worms) of the family , that bore through the wooden hulls of ships and other woody material immersed in salt water.
  • * 1955 , , The Edge of the Sea ,
    • Old spars and water-soaked timbers cast on the beach are full of the workings of the shipworm —long cylindrical tunnels penetrating all parts of the wood.
  • * 2002 , Erkki Leppäkoski, Stephan Gollasch, Sergej Olenin, Invasive Aquatic Species of Europe: Distribution, Impacts, and Management ,
    • Even though mankind has tried to develop counter measures for thousands of years, still there is no easy solution to the shipworm problem in sight.
  • * 2004 , Donald Launer, A Cruising Guide to New Jersey Waters ,
    • In our waters, however, the shipworm seldom attains a length of over a foot-and-a-half long.