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wood·worm  (wdwûrm)

n.

A worm or an insect larva that bores into wood.

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woodworm

Noun

1. a beetle larva that bores into wooden furniture or beams

2. the damage caused to wood by 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 [ˈwudwəːm] n → carcoma

woodworm [ˈwudwəːm] n → ver m du bois;

the table has got woodworm → la table est piquée des vers

woodworm [ˈwudwəːm] wood n → Holzwurm m

woodworm [ˈwudwəːm] n → tarlo del legno