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What is a gribble?

What is a gribble? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any of various wood-boring marine crustaceans of the genus Limnoria, especially Limnoria lignorum, which cause damage to underwater wooden structures.
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The seagrass gribble burrows through blades of seagrasses, eating their soft internal tissues.
On the one hand, she paints a convincing portrait of Gribble as a deeply disturbed and increasingly deranged individual.
The gribble, a small marine creature resembling a woodlouse, is prized by scientists for its ability to break down wood cellulose into alcohol which it then uses for energy.
Jeffrie and gribble were the mine engineers that put her up.
Gribble was a famous detective novelist of the era, but he is clearly in awe of the 1939 Gunners team – which he repeatedly, and shamelessly, namechecks.
Marine borers, of which the gribble is one type, are gobbling away at the wooden hulk and hastening its deterioration.

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