CARPENTERWORM

Meaning of CARPENTERWORM in English

ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun

Etymology: so called from its wood boring

: the wood-boring larva of the American goat moth ( Prionoxystus robiniae ) that bores large galleries in livng trees and is especially destructive to oaks and locusts

Webster's New International English Dictionary. Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012

CARPENTERWORM — /kahr"peuhn teuhr werrm'/ , n. the larva of the carpenterworm moth. [ CARPENTER + WORM ]
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
CARPENTERWORM MOTH — any moth of the family Cossidae, as Prionoxystus robiniae of the U.S. and southern Canada, whose larvae bore into the …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
CARPENTER MOTH — noun : the adult of the carpenterworm or a related moth (family Cossidae) — called also goat moth
Webster's New International English Dictionary
CARPENTER MOTH — any member of the small cosmopolitan insect family Cossidae (order Lepidoptera). Adults have vestigial mouthparts, long, thick bodies and gray …
Britannica English vocabulary

Webster's New International English Dictionary

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