(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).

See also: Wood, Wood, Wood, Wood, Wood

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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Los Angeles Harbor has undergone many changes in the ensuing 63 years since the previous wood borer study and only those which influence wood borer activity are enumerated herein.

Comparison of the marine wood borer populations in Los Angeles Harbor in 1950-1951 with the populations in 2013-2014

Sinoxylon anale - a new destructive wood borer in Israel.

Multiple detections of two exotic auger beetles of the genus Sinoxylon (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae) in Georgia, USA

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