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Webster Dictionary

  1. Terebranoun

    a genus of marine gastropods having a long, tapering spire. They belong to the Toxoglossa. Called also auger shell

  2. Terebranoun

    the boring ovipositor of a hymenopterous insect

Wikidata

  1. Terebra

    Terebra is a genus of small to large-sized predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Terebridae, the auger snails. Species in this genus do not possess a radula.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Terebra

    ter′ē-bra, n. a Roman engine for making a breach in a wall: the borer or ovipositor of various insects.—adj. Ter′ebrant.—n. a borer, a bore.—v.t. Ter′ebrāte, to bore.—adj. provided with a borer.—n. Terebrā′tion. [L.]

Entomology

  1. Terebra

    a borer or piercer: an ovipositor fitted for boring or cutting as in saw-flies: a mandibular sclerite articulated to the basalis; forms the point of the structure and = the galea of the maxilla.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of terebra in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of terebra in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

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