Translingual

Proper noun

Serpula f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Serpulidae – sessile marine annelid tube worms.
2. A taxonomic genus within the family Serpulaceae – certain fungi, including that causing dry rot in structural timber.

English

Wikispecies

Noun

serpula ‎(plural serpulas or serpulae)

1. (zoology) Any of numerous species of tubicolous annelids of the genus Serpula and allied genera of the family Serpulidae that secrete a calcareous tube, usually irregularly contorted, but sometimes spirally coiled, with a wreath of plumelike and often bright-colored gills around its head, and usually an operculum to close the aperture of its tube when it retracts.