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noun
Borer  n.  
1.
One that bores; an instrument for boring.
2.
(Zool.)
(a)
A marine, bivalve mollusk, of the genus Teredo and allies, which burrows in wood. See Teredo.
(b)
Any bivalve mollusk (Saxicava, Lithodomus, etc.) which bores into limestone and similar substances.
(c)
One of the larvae of many species of insects, which penetrate trees, as the apple, peach, pine, etc. See Apple borer, under Apple.
(d)
The hagfish (Myxine).





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"Borer" Quotes from Famous Books



... destroy garden vegetables are the well-known green cabbage-worm, the harlequin cabbage-bug, the cabbage hairworm, the asparagus-beetle, the squash-bug, the squash-vine borer, the striped cucumber or melon beetle, the melon aphis, the corn boll-worm, the cornstalk ...
— Checking the Waste - A Study in Conservation • Mary Huston Gregory
... at work on some of my hickories, but have not as yet determined its species. It may be the painted hickory borer (Cylene), or the locust borer. It makes a hole as large as a small lead pencil, directly into the trunk or limbs, and excavates long tunnels into the heart wood. The painted hickory borer is supposed to occur chiefly on dead and dying hickories, but the borer of ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Second Annual Meeting - Ithaca, New York, December 14 and 15, 1911 • Northern Nut Growers Association
... Newcastle; and another has since been heard and seen near Coventry. Its noise resembles that made by the boring of a large auger through the hardest wood; whence the country people sometimes call the bird "the pump-borer."—Ibid. ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 12, No. 334 Saturday, October 4, 1828 • Various
... bonfaro, gajno. Boorish maldelikata. Boot boto. Booth budo. Bootless neprofita. Bootmaker botisto. Booty akirajxo. Borax borakso. Border (edge) randajxo. Border, to put a borderi. Bore (a hole) bori. Bore (of a gun) kalibro. Borer (tool) borilo. Born, to be naskigxi. Born again renaskigxi. Borne portita. Borough urba distrikto. Borrow prunto preni. Bosom brusto. Botany botaniko. Botch (spoil) malbonigi. Both ambaux. Bother ...
— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes


Words linked to "Borer" :   straight-fluted drill, drill, rock drill, star drill, European corn borer moth, stone drill, cross bit, bore bit, corn borer, bore


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