Wood borer

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(Zool.)	The larva of any one of numerous species of boring beetles, esp. elaters, longicorn beetles, buprestidans, and certain weevils. See Apple borer, under Apple, and Pine weevil, under Pine.
	The larva of any one of various species of lepidopterous insects, especially of the clearwing moths, as the peach-tree borer (see under Peach), and of the goat moths.
	The larva of various species of hymenopterous of the tribe Urocerata. See Tremex.
	Any one of several bivalve shells which bore in wood, as the teredos, and species of Xylophaga.
	Any one of several species of small Crustacea, as the Limnoria, and the boring amphipod (Chelura terebrans).

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