GRIBBLE

Meaning of GRIBBLE in English

Pronunciation: ' gri-b ə l

Function: noun

Etymology: perhaps alteration of 2 grub

Date: 1838

: either of two small wood-boring marine isopods ( Limnoria lignorum and L. tripunctata )

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GRIBBLE — noun Etymology: perhaps alteration of 2grub Date: 1838 either of two small wood-boring marine isopods ( Limnoria lignorum and L. …
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GRIBBLE — I. ˈgribəl noun ( -s ) Etymology: origin unknown dialect England : a young crab tree or blackthorn ; sometimes …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
GRIBBLE — (n.) A small marine isopod crustacean (Limnoria lignorum or L. terebrans), which burrows into and rapidly destroys submerged timber, such …
Английский словарь Webster
GRIBBLE — ( n. ) A small marine isopod crustacean (Limnoria lignorum or L. terebrans), which burrows into and rapidly destroys submerged …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
GRIBBLE — /grib"euhl/ , n. a small, marine isopod crustacean of the genus Limnoria that destroys submerged timber by boring into it. …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
GRIBBLE — noun Etymology: perhaps alteration of grub (II) Date: 1838 : either of two small wood-boring marine isopods ( Limnoria lignorum …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
GRIBBLE — noun a small marine isopod crustacean (limnoria lignorum or l. terebrans), which burrows into and rapidly destroys submerged timber, such …
Webster English vocab
GRIBBLE — [grib.ble] n [perh. alter. of [2]grub] (1838): either of two small marine isopods (Limnoria lignorum and L. tripunctata) that destroy …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
GRIBBLE — any of the approximately 20 species of wood-boring, marine crustaceans constituting the genus Limnoria, in the order Isopoda. They feed …
Britannica English vocabulary
GRIBBLE — Gribble, g\~ BrE AmE ˈɡrɪb ə l
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
GRIBBLE — Random binary data rendered as unreadable text. Noise characters in a data stream are displayed as gribble. Modems with mismatched …
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GRIBBLE — карц. лимнория (Limnoria)
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GRIBBLE — карц. лимнория ( Limnoria )
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WOOD BORER — noun 1. : a grub that is the wood-boring larva of any of numerous beetles (as a click beetle, longicorn …
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LIMNORIA — ˌlimnəˈrīə noun Etymology: New Latin, from Greek Limnōreia, one of the Nereids 1. capitalized : a genus (the type of …
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ISOPOD — any member of the order Isopoda (class Crustacea), a group of diverse, widely occurring forms including marine, freshwater, and terrestrial …
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CHEMICAL COMPOUND — any substance composed of identical molecules consisting of atoms of two or more elements. There are millions of known compounds, …
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TRICHOMYCETES — class of fungi (division Mycota) with a vegetative body (thallus) consisting of single or branched filaments (hyphae). The class was …
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BROMPTON ORATORY — formally London Oratory of St. Philip Neri, Roman Catholic church in the London borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It lies …
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ЛИМНОРИЯ — карц. (Limnoria) gribble
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