Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That which bores wood, as an insect, a crustacean, or amollusk. Compare Cis, ship-worm, Saperda, and teredo, and other citations under wood-boring.
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Examples
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She would be adding insects to her ration, for she had found grubs of a wood-borer that she recognized, ant pupae, and crickets, all of which she could choke down so long as they were toasted.
The Silver Gryphon Lackey, Mercedes 1996
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She would be adding insects to her ration, for she had found grubs of a wood-borer that she recognized, ant pupae, and crickets, all of which she could choke down so long as they were toasted.
The Silver Gryphon Lackey, Mercedes 1996
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From the ceiling resounded at intervals the monotonous cric-cric of a wood-borer gnawing the beams with incessant toil which passed unheeded during the day.
The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897
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Three very splendid insects of the outer ranges of Sikkim never occurred in the interior: these are a gigantic Curculio (_Calandra_) a wood-borer; a species of Goliath-beetle, _Cheirotonus Macleaii, _ and a smaller species of the same rare family, _Trigonophorus nepalensis_; of these the former is very scarce, the latter extremely abundant, flying about at evenings; both are flower-feeders, eating honey and pollen.
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