Woodworm meaning in marathi

a larva of a woodborer

लाकूडतोड्याची अळी

1. Any of many beetle larvae that bore into wood.

अनेक बीटल अळ्यांपैकी कोणतीही जी लाकूड बनवते.

1. Chrisostome doth compaire enuie to the wood worm which though it doe breede in the tymber, yet it doth consume & waste the tymber, as enuie springing of the heart doth putrifie and vtterly eat vp the heart.

2. His father met a man who said that he had the figure from a ship which went aground near Blackwater Head. It would have to be treated for woodworm, he said.

3. There was only one contretemps during the whole interview—the arrival of another visitor, in the shape (surely) the last of God’s creatures, a wood-worm of the most unnatural and hideous appearance, with one great striped horn stucking out of his nose like a boltsprit. If there are many wood-worms in Germany, I shall come home.