- furniture beetle
- noun Date: 1915 a widespread beetle (Anobium punctatum of the family Anobiidae) that bores in and damages furniture and seasoned wood
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furniture beetle
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furniture beetle — noun also furniture borer : a small borer beetle (Anobium punctatum) resembling a powder post beetle but having the head bent under the thorax and feeding on both sapwood and heartwood of seasoned timber; broadly : a beetle of the family… … Useful english dictionary
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borer beetle — ▪ insect any of the approximately 1,100 species of insects of the family Anobiidae (order Coleoptera). These beetles tend to be small (1 to 9 mm, or less than 0.5 inch) and cylindrical. When disturbed they usually pull in their legs and… … Universalium
powder-post beetle — noun also powder post borer : any of several beetles (family Lyctidae) having larvae that feed in very dry wood or lumber and reduce the interior to powder compare anobium, furniture beetle … Useful english dictionary
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