different between woodworm vs termites

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

wood +? worm

Noun

woodworm (countable and uncountable, plural woodworms)

1. Any of many beetle larvae that bore into wood.
   • 1599, Simon Harward, “A Displaying of the wilfull deuises of wicked and vaine worldlings” in Three Sermons, London: Richard Johns,^[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.

   • 1872, Robert Louis Stevenson, letter to Mrs. Thomas Stevenson dated July 29, 1872, in Sidney Colvin (editor), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, New York: Scribner, 1917, Volume I, p. 45,^[2]

     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.

   • 1992, Colm Tóibín, The Heather Blazing Penguin, 1994, Chapter Two, p. 25,^[3]

     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.

   1. Anobium punctatum
2. A shipworm, a worm-like mollusk in the family Teredinidae that feeds on wood underwater in saltwater.

Synonyms

• (any wood-boring beetle larvae): deathwatch beetle
• (Anobium punctatum): furniture beetle

Translations

Anagrams

• Wormwood, wormwood

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t??ma?ts/

Noun

termites

1. plural of termite

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t??m?ti?z/

Noun

termites

1. plural of termes

Anagrams

• emitters, meritest

Catalan

Noun

termites

1. plural of termita

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??.mit/

Noun

termites m pl or f pl

1. plural of termite

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ter.mi.te?s/, [?t??rm?t?e?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ter.mi.tes/, [?t??rmit??s]

Noun

termit?s m

1. nominative plural of termes
2. accusative plural of termes
3. vocative plural of termes