Woody vs Shipworm - What's the difference?
woody | shipworm |
Covered in woods; wooded.
(obsolete) Belonging to the woods; sylvan.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.iii:
Made of wood, or having wood-like properties.
(botany) Non-herbaceous.
(botany) Lignified: "the woody parts of a plant".
A station wagon that has a retro wooden exterior, often associated with Southern California surfing culture.
(vulgar, slang) An erection.
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 ,
* 2002 , Erkki Leppäkoski, Stephan Gollasch, Sergej Olenin, Invasive Aquatic Species of Europe: Distribution, Impacts, and Management ,
* 2004 , Donald Launer, A Cruising Guide to New Jersey Waters ,
As nouns the difference between woody and shipworm
is that woody is a station wagon that has a retro wooden exterior, often associated with southern california surfing culture while 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.As an adjective woody
is covered in woods; wooded.woody
English
Adjective
(er)- with the wooddie Nymphes when she did play, / Or when the flying Libbard she did chace, / She could them nimbly moue, and after fly apace.
- Subshrubs, shrubs, trees and lianas are all woody plants.
Noun
(woodies)See also
* wood * wooden * woodedshipworm
English
(wikipedia shipworm) (Teredinidae)Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- 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.
- In our waters, however, the shipworm seldom attains a length of over a foot-and-a-half long.