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a small, marine isopod crustacean of the genus Limnoria that destroys submerged timber by boring into it.
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any of the approximately 20 species of wood-boring, marine crustaceans constituting the genus Limnoria, in the order Isopoda. They feed on algae, driftwood, and the submerged wood of docks and wharves and sometimes attack the nonwoody insulation of submarine cables.
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