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English : occupational name for one whose job was to bore holes in something, Middle English borer.Swiss German : variant of Bohrer.
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Any moth of the genus Nonagria and allied genera, as the spindleworm and stalk borer.
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The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor); -- called also tapperer, tabberer, little wood pie, barred woodpecker, wood tapper, hickwall, and pump borer.
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An auger or borer.
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One that bores; an instrument for boring.
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One of the larvae of many species of insects, which penetrate trees, as the apple, peach, pine, etc. See Apple borer, under Apple.
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Any bivalve mollusk (Saxicava, Lithodomus, etc.) which bores into limestone and similar substances.
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One of a tribe of beetles, of the genus Buprestis and allied genera, usually with brilliant metallic colors. The larvae are usually borers in timber, or beneath bark, and are often very destructive to trees.
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A borer; the teredo.
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An eel-like marine marsipobranch (Myxine glutinosa), allied to the lamprey. It has a suctorial mouth, with labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings. It is the type of the order Hyperotpeta. Called also hagfish, borer, slime eel, sucker, and sleepmarken.
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A tribe of bivalve mollusks, characterized by the closed state of the mantle which envelops the body. The ship borer (Teredo navalis) is an example.
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A division of beetles, including a large number of species, in which the antennae are very long. Most of them, while in the larval state, bore into the wood or beneath the bark of trees, and some species are very destructive to fruit and shade trees. See Apple borer, under Apple, and Locust beetle, under Locust.
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The hagfish (Myxine).
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A lepidopterous insect with partially transparent wings, of the family Aegeriadae, of which the currant and peach-tree borers are examples.
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A marine, bivalve mollusk, of the genus Teredo and allies, which burrows in wood. See Teredo.