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WOODWORM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does woodworm mean?
• WOODWORM (noun)
The noun WOODWORM has 1 sense:
1. a larva of a woodborer
Familiarity information: WOODWORM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A larva of a woodborer
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("woodworm" is a kind of...):
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)
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