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wood·worm

(wo͝od′wûrm′)

Any of various beetle larvae that bore into wood.

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woodworm

(ˈwʊdˌwɜːm)

1. (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. (Forestry) the condition caused in wood by any of these larvae

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Noun

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

سوس الخَشَب

træorm

Holzwurm

szú

maîkur, lirfa

tarlo

tremark

črvotoč

tahta kurdu

蛀虫

woodworm

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

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

woodworm

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

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

woodworm

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

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

wood

(wud) noun

1. (also adjective) (of) the material of which the trunk and branches of trees are composed. My desk is (made of) wood; She gathered some wood for the fire; I like the smell of a wood fire.

2. (often in plural) a group of growing trees. They went for a walk in the woods.

3. a golf-club whose head is made of wood.

ˈwooded adjective

(of land) covered with trees. a wooded hillside.

ˈwooden adjective

made of wood. three wooden chairs.

ˈwoody adjective

1. covered with trees. woody countryside.

2. (of a smell etc) of or like wood.

ˈwood carving noun

the art of carving wood.

ˈwoodcut noun

a print made by pressing a block of wood with design cut on it onto paper.

ˈwoodcutter noun

a person whose job is felling trees.

ˈwoodland noun

land covered with woods. a stretch of woodland.

ˈwoodlouse – plural ˈwoodlice – noun

a tiny creature with a jointed shell, found under stones etc.

ˈwoodpecker noun

a type of bird which pecks holes in the bark of trees, searching for insects.

ˈwood pulp noun

pulp from wood that can be used for making paper.

ˈwoodwind (-wind) noun

(in an orchestra, the group of people who play) wind instruments made of wood.

ˈwoodwork noun

1. the art of making things from wood; carpentry. He did woodwork at school.

2. the wooden part of any structure. The woodwork in the house is rotting.

ˈwoodworm – plurals ˈwoodworm, ~woodworms – noun

the larva of a certain type of beetle, which bores into wood and destroys it.

out of the wood(s)

out of danger.

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