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wood bugs

wood bugs is the plural of wood bug.

Meaning of wood bug

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

Questions about wood bugs

What is wood bugs the plural of?
Wood bugs is the plural of wood bug.

Words near wood bugs in the dictionary

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

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