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Definition of "woodworm" [wood•worm]

  • A worm or an insect larva that bores into wood. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "woodworm" in a sentence
  • "There were still relics like this lurking in farm buildings when I started out on my agricultural life: I recall finding a woodworm-infected patten lying in the manger of a stable a week or so after the last draught horse had been put to sleep."
  • "They own helicopters and submarines and they can afford to spread the woodworm of corruption through poor countries, right to the top."
  • "And his pegleg got woodworm and broke into three.'"
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