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Any of many beetle larvae that bore into wood.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- 1599, Simon Harward, “A Displaying of the wilfull deuises of wicked and vaine worldlings” in Three Sermons, London: Richard Johns, [...] Chrisostome doth compaire enuie to the wood worm which though it doe breede in the tymber, yet it doth consume & waste the tymber, as enuie springing of the heart doth putrifie and vtterly eat vp the heart.
- 1872, Robert Louis Stevenson, letter to Mrs. Thomas Stevenson dated July 29, 1872, in Sidney Colvin (editor), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, New York: Scribner, 1917, Volume I, p. 45, There was only one contretemps during the whole interview—the arrival of another visitor, in the shape (surely) the last of God’s creatures, a wood-worm of the most unnatural and hideous appearance, with one great striped horn stucking out of his nose like a boltsprit. If there are many wood-worms in Germany, I shall come home.
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Any of many beetle larvae that bore into wood.
Anobium punctatum (common furniture beetle).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: particularly
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A shipworm, a worm-like mollusk in the family Teredinidae that feeds on wood underwater in saltwater.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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a larva of a woodborer
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: worm
Across languages
Translations
39 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Asturian:
poliya
— larvae that bore into wood
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Asturian:
coroyu
— larvae that bore into wood
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Bulgarian:
дървояд
(dǎrvojad)
— larvae that bore into wood
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Chinese Mandarin:
蛀蟲 /蛀虫
(zhùchóng)
— larvae that bore into wood
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Chinese Mandarin:
木蛀蟲 /木蛀虫
— larvae that bore into wood
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Cornish:
pryv prenn
— larvae that bore into wood
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Czech:
červotoč
— larvae that bore into wood
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Old Czech:
dřěvotoč
— larvae that bore into wood
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Old Czech:
črvotoč
— larvae that bore into wood
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Dutch:
houtworm
— larvae that bore into wood
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Finnish:
jumi
— larvae that bore into wood
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Galician:
couza
— larvae that bore into wood
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Galician:
broca
— larvae that bore into wood
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Galician:
trilla
— larvae that bore into wood
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Galician:
rela
— larvae that bore into wood
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Galician:
traza
— larvae that bore into wood
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Galician:
caruncho
— larvae that bore into wood
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Galician:
corta
— larvae that bore into wood
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German:
Holzwurm
— larvae that bore into wood
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Ancient Greek:
θρῑ́ψ
(thrī́ps)
— larvae that bore into wood
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Ancient Greek:
ἴ̄ψ
(í̄ps)
— larvae that bore into wood
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Hungarian:
szú
— larvae that bore into wood
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Italian:
tarlo
— larvae that bore into wood
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Japanese:
木食い虫
(kikuimushi)
— larvae that bore into wood
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Latin:
tarmes
— larvae that bore into wood
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Latin:
terēdō
— larvae that bore into wood
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Northern Mansi:
сӯр
(sūr)
— larvae that bore into wood
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Classical Nahuatl:
cuauhocuilin
— larvae that bore into wood
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Polish:
kornik
— larvae that bore into wood
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Russian:
точи́льщик
(točílʹščik)
— larvae that bore into wood
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Sicilian:
càmula
— larvae that bore into wood
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Sicilian:
cagnolu
— larvae that bore into wood
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Spanish:
carcoma
— larvae that bore into wood
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Spanish:
polilla
— larvae that bore into wood
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Spanish:
quera
— larvae that bore into wood
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Turkish:
ağaç kurdu
— larvae that bore into wood
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Ottoman Turkish:
آغاج قوردی
(ağac kurdu)
— larvae that bore into wood
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Welsh:
pryf pren
— larvae that bore into wood
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Yakut:
мас үөнэ
(mas üöne)
— larvae that bore into wood
