Wood borer
(Zool.) | The larva of any one of numerous species of boring beetles, esp. elaters, longicorn beetles, buprestidans, and certain weevils. See Apple borer, under Apple, and Pine weevil, under Pine. |
The larva of any one of various species of lepidopterous insects, especially of the clearwing moths, as the peach-tree borer (see under Peach), and of the goat moths. | |
The larva of various species of hymenopterous of the tribe Urocerata. See Tremex. | |
Any one of several bivalve shells which bore in wood, as the teredos, and species of Xylophaga. | |
Any one of several species of small Crustacea, as the Limnoria, and the boring amphipod (Chelura terebrans). |
See also: Wood, Wood, Wood, Wood, Wood