death-watch beetle

See also: deathwatch beetle

English

Alternative forms

• deathwatch beetle

Noun

death-watch beetle (plural death-watch beetles)

1. 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

• Irish: cailleach oíche f, ciaróg oíche f
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• Maori: tākituri