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wood bug

wood bug noun: any insect or invertebrate that feeds on or otherwise attacks wood.

Noun

wood bug (plural wood bugs)

  1. Any insect or invertebrate that feeds on or otherwise attacks wood.
    • In the space about the hut her search went on, lifting old tins and boxes and timber to disturb the flat grey woodbugs under them, but finding nothing else there.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 193

Forms of wood bug

pluralwood bugs
alternative formwood-bug
alternative formwoodbug

Questions about wood bug

What does wood bug mean?
Wood bug means any insect or invertebrate that feeds on or otherwise attacks wood.
What part of speech is wood bug?
Wood bug is a noun.
What is the plural of wood bug?
The plural of wood bug is wood bugs.

Words near wood bug in the dictionary

  1. wood block
  2. wood blocks
  3. wood brown
  4. wood browns
  5. wood buffalo
  6. wood bug
  7. wood bugs
  8. wood burner
  9. wood burners
  10. wood buttercup
  11. wood carpet

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