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death-watch_beetle
death-watch beetle
See also: deathwatch beetle
English
Noun
death-watch beetle (plural death-watch beetles)
- A woodboring beetle, namely a beetle whose larvae are xylophagous.
- 2005 : Of course they had death-watch beetle at Noseley Abbey. - Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, (Bloomsbury Publishing, paperback edition, 247)
Translations
a type of beetle
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