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wood·worm  (wdwûrm)

n.

A worm or an insect larva that bores into wood.

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woodworm [ˈwʊdˌwɜːm]

n

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any of various insect larvae that bore into wooden furniture, beams, etc., esp the larvae of the furniture beetle, Anobium punctatum, and the deathwatch beetle

2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Forestry) the condition caused in wood by any of these larvae

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

woodworm - a larva of a woodborer worm - any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae

Translations

woodworm [ˈwʊdwɜːm] N → carcoma f
the table has woodworm → la mesa está carcomida

woodworm [ˈwʊdwɜː^rm] n → ver m du bois
to have woodworm → être vermoulu(e)
The table has got woodworm → La table est vermoulue.

woodworm [ˈwʊdˌwɜːm] n → tarlo
to have woodworm → essere tarlato/a