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Yemenite (iou) and Gribble (medicine)


Yemenite (iou)



Yemenite noun & adjective. M19.
[from YEMENI + -ITE1.]
A. noun.
= YEMENI noun. M19.
A Jew who was, or whose ancestors were, formerly resident in the Yemen. E20.
b. adjective. Of, pertaining to, or designating a Yemeni Arab or a Yemeni Jew. L19.

Gribble (medicine)


gribble
<zoology> A small marine isopod crustacean (Limnoria lignorum or L. Terebrans), which burrows into and rapidly destroys submerged timber, such as the piles of wharves, both in Europe and America.

Origin: Cf. Prov. E. Grib to bite.

Source: Websters Dictionary