CARPENTERWORM

Meaning of CARPENTERWORM in English

/kahr"peuhn teuhr werrm'/ , n.

the larva of the carpenterworm moth.

[ CARPENTER + WORM ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary. Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House . 2012

CARPENTERWORM — ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun Etymology: so called from its wood boring : the wood-boring larva of the American goat moth ( Prionoxystus …
Webster's New International 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