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- [woo d-wurm]
- /ˈwʊdˌwɜrm/
- /ˈwʊd.wɜːm/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [woo d-wurm]
- /ˈwʊdˌwɜrm/
Definitions of woodworm word
- noun woodworm a worm or larva that breeds in or bores into wood. 1
- noun woodworm The worm or larva of a beetle that bores into wood. 1
- noun woodworm beetle larva that eats wood 1
- countable noun woodworm Woodworm are very small creatures which make holes in wood by eating it. 0
- uncountable noun woodworm Woodworm is damage caused to wood, especially to the wooden parts of a house or to furniture, by woodworm making holes in the wood. 0
- noun woodworm any of various insect larvae that bore into wooden furniture, beams, etc, esp the larvae of the furniture beetle, Anobium punctatum, and the deathwatch beetle 0
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Origin of woodworm
First appearance:
before 1530 One of the 29% oldest English words
First recorded in 1530-40; wood1 + worm
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Parts of speech for Woodworm
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woodworm popularity
A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 55% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.
woodworm usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for woodworm
noun woodworm
- insect — any animal of the class Insecta, comprising small, air-breathing arthropods having the body divided into three parts (head, thorax, and abdomen), and having three pairs of legs and usually two pairs of wings.
- larva — Entomology. the immature, wingless, feeding stage of an insect that undergoes complete metamorphosis.
- worm — Write-Once Read-Many
- pest — a city in and the capital of Hungary, in the central part, on the Danube River: formed 1873 from two cities on the W bank of the Danube (Buda and Obuda) and one on the E bank (Pest)
- grub — the thick-bodied, sluggish larva of several insects, as of a scarab beetle.
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