woodworm

Noun

 * 1) Any of many beetle larvae that bore into wood.
 * 2) * 1599, Simon Harward, “A Displaying of the wilfull deuises of wicked and vaine worldlings” in Three Sermons, London: Richard Johns,
 * ' doth compaire enuie to the wood worm''' which though it doe breede in the tymber, yet it doth consume & waste the tymber, as enuie springing of the heart doth putrifie and vtterly eat vp the heart.
 * 1) * 1872,, letter to Mrs. Thomas Stevenson dated July 29, 1872, in (editor), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, New York: Scribner, 1917, Volume I, p. 45,
 * There was only one contretemps during the whole interview—the arrival of another visitor, in the shape (surely) the last of God’s creatures, a wood-worm of the most unnatural and hideous appearance, with one great striped horn stucking out of his nose like a boltsprit. If there are many wood-worms in Germany, I shall come home.
 * 1) A shipworm, a worm-like mollusk in the family  that feeds on wood underwater in saltwater.
 * 1) A shipworm, a worm-like mollusk in the family  that feeds on wood underwater in saltwater.
 * 1) A shipworm, a worm-like mollusk in the family  that feeds on wood underwater in saltwater.

Synonyms

 * furniture beetle

Translations

 * Classical Nahuatl: cuauhocuilin
 * Cornish: pryv prenn
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Galician: couza, broca, trilla, rela
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: θρῑ́ψ
 * Italian:
 * Latin:, terēdō
 * Ottoman Turkish: آغاج قوردی
 * Russian:
 * Sicilian: ,
 * Spanish:, , quera
 * Turkish:
 * Welsh: pryf pren
 * Yakut: мас үөнэ