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wood bug en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. Any insect or invertebrate that feeds on or otherwise attacks wood.
    • In the space about the hut her search went on, lifting old tins and boxes and timber to disturb the flat grey woodbugs under them, but finding nothing else there. 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 193:

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woodbug alternative lexicographic
wood bugs Number=Plur lexicographic

Translations (1)

izh puuitikka (insect living in wood)