Hiligaynon
From bukâ-to cut open, etc.
Hiligaynon
A large worm growing to about eight inches in length and half an inch in diameter, often found in mangroves near the beach and esteemed by some people as a delicate morsel of food; teredo, shipworm, a mollusk that is very destructive to submerged or decaying wood. (see búk-an).