"woodworm" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-woodworm.wav Forms: woodworms [plural]
Etymology: From wood + worm. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|wood|worm}} wood + worm Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} woodworm (countable and uncountable, plural woodworms)
  1. Any of many beetle larvae that bore into wood. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (lifeform): Bivalves
    Sense id: en-woodworm-en-noun-oAaxeGKO Disambiguation of Bivalves: 15 44 41 Categories (other): English alliterative compounds, Terms with Ancient Greek translations Disambiguation of English alliterative compounds: 19 43 38 Disambiguation of Terms with Ancient Greek translations: 14 47 39
  2. Any of many beetle larvae that bore into wood.
    (particularly) Anobium punctatum (common furniture beetle).
    Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (lifeform): Bivalves, Bostrichiform beetles Synonyms (Anobium punctatum): furniture beetle
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  3. A shipworm, a worm-like mollusk in the family Teredinidae that feeds on wood underwater in saltwater. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (lifeform): Bivalves
    Sense id: en-woodworm-en-noun-yRSsH-WP Disambiguation of Bivalves: 15 44 41 Categories (other): English alliterative compounds, Terms with Ancient Greek translations Disambiguation of English alliterative compounds: 19 43 38 Disambiguation of Terms with Ancient Greek translations: 14 47 39
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hyponyms (any wood-boring beetle larvae): deathwatch beetle Translations (larvae that bore into wood): θρῑ́ψ (thrī́ps) [masculine] (Ancient Greek), ἴ̄ψ (í̄ps) [masculine] (Ancient Greek), 蛀蟲 /蛀虫 (zhùchóng) (Chinese Mandarin), 木蛀蟲 /木蛀虫 (Chinese Mandarin), cuauhocuilin (Classical Nahuatl), pryv prenn [masculine] (Cornish), červotoč [masculine] (Czech), houtworm (Dutch), jumi (Finnish), couza [feminine] (Galician), broca [feminine] (Galician), trilla [feminine] (Galician), rela [feminine] (Galician), Holzwurm [masculine] (German), tarlo [masculine] (Italian), tarmes [masculine] (Latin), terēdō [feminine] (Latin), dřěvotoč [masculine] (Old Czech), črvotoč [masculine] (Old Czech), آغاج قوردی (ağac kurdu) (Ottoman Turkish), точи́льщик (točílʹščik) (english: no specific word for larva) [masculine] (Russian), càmula [feminine] (Sicilian), cagnolu (english: referred to larvae) [masculine] (Sicilian), carcoma [feminine] (Spanish), polilla [feminine] (Spanish), quera [feminine] (Spanish), ağaç kurdu (Turkish), pryf pren [masculine] (Welsh), мас үөнэ (mas üöne) (Yakut)
Disambiguation of 'any wood-boring beetle larvae': 45 45 10 Disambiguation of 'larvae that bore into wood': 45 45 10

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    "Terms with Cornish translations",
    "Terms with Czech translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with Galician translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Italian translations",
    "Terms with Latin translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
    "Terms with Old Czech translations",
    "Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations",
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    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Turkish translations",
    "Terms with Welsh translations",
    "Terms with Yakut translations",
    "en:Bivalves",
    "en:Bostrichiform beetles"
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "wood",
        "3": "worm"
      },
      "expansion": "wood + worm",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From wood + worm.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "woodworms",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
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      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "sense": "any wood-boring beetle larvae",
      "word": "deathwatch beetle"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "1599, Simon Harward, “A Displaying of the wilfull deuises of wicked and vaine worldlings” in Three Sermons, London: Richard Johns,\n[…] Chrisostome 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."
        },
        {
          "text": "1872, Robert Louis Stevenson, letter to Mrs. Thomas Stevenson dated July 29, 1872, in Sidney Colvin (editor), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, New York: Scribner, 1917, Volume I, p. 45,\nThere 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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 144:",
          "text": "New Alresford is constantly mispronounced, T-shaped, honeycombed with cellars, packed with antique shops, riddled with woodworm, surrounded by watercress. The name - which means 'ford by the alders' - is pronounced 'Allsford'; and no one ever uses 'New', though they do call the adjoining village Old Alresford.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1992, Colm Tóibín, chapter 2, in The Heather Blazing, Penguin, published 1994, page 25:",
          "text": "His father met a man who said that he had the figure from a ship which went aground near Blackwater Head. It would have to be treated for woodworm, he said.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "Any of many beetle larvae that bore into wood."
      ],
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        [
          "beetle",
          "beetle"
        ],
        [
          "larva",
          "larva"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
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        "Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa",
        "Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of many beetle larvae that bore into wood.",
        "Anobium punctatum (common furniture beetle)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "beetle",
          "beetle"
        ],
        [
          "larva",
          "larva"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "particularly",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "Any of many beetle larvae that bore into wood.",
        "(particularly) Anobium punctatum (common furniture beetle)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A shipworm, a worm-like mollusk in the family Teredinidae that feeds on wood underwater in saltwater."
      ],
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        [
          "shipworm",
          "shipworm"
        ],
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          "mollusk",
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        ],
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          "family",
          "family"
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          "Teredinidae",
          "Teredinidae#Translingual"
        ]
      ],
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        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
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  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "Anobium punctatum",
      "word": "furniture beetle"
    }
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zhùchóng",
      "sense": "larvae that bore into wood",
      "word": "蛀蟲 /蛀虫"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "larvae that bore into wood",
      "word": "木蛀蟲 /木蛀虫"
    },
    {
      "code": "nci",
      "lang": "Classical Nahuatl",
      "sense": "larvae that bore into wood",
      "word": "cuauhocuilin"
    },
    {
      "code": "kw",
      "lang": "Cornish",
      "sense": "larvae that bore into wood",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pryv prenn"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "larvae that bore into wood",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "červotoč"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "larvae that bore into wood",
      "word": "houtworm"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "larvae that bore into wood",
      "word": "jumi"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "larvae that bore into wood",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "couza"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "larvae that bore into wood",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "broca"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "larvae that bore into wood",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "trilla"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "larvae that bore into wood",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "rela"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "larvae that bore into wood",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Holzwurm"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "thrī́ps",
      "sense": "larvae that bore into wood",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "θρῑ́ψ"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "í̄ps",
      "sense": "larvae that bore into wood",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ἴ̄ψ"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "larvae that bore into wood",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tarlo"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "larvae that bore into wood",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tarmes"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "larvae that bore into wood",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "terēdō"
    },
    {
      "code": "zlw-ocs",
      "lang": "Old Czech",
      "sense": "larvae that bore into wood",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dřěvotoč"
    },
    {
      "code": "zlw-ocs",
      "lang": "Old Czech",
      "sense": "larvae that bore into wood",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "črvotoč"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "ağac kurdu",
      "sense": "larvae that bore into wood",
      "word": "آغاج قوردی"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "english": "no specific word for larva",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "točílʹščik",
      "sense": "larvae that bore into wood",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "точи́льщик"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "larvae that bore into wood",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "càmula"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "english": "referred to larvae",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "larvae that bore into wood",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cagnolu"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "larvae that bore into wood",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "carcoma"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "larvae that bore into wood",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "polilla"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "larvae that bore into wood",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "quera"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "larvae that bore into wood",
      "word": "ağaç kurdu"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "larvae that bore into wood",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pryf pren"
    },
    {
      "code": "sah",
      "lang": "Yakut",
      "roman": "mas üöne",
      "sense": "larvae that bore into wood",
      "word": "мас үөнэ"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "woodworm"
  ],
  "word": "woodworm"
}

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