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Definition: FLAGWORM |
FLAGWORMNoun1. A worm or grub found among flags and sedge. |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | A member of the(mainly tropical)family Platypodidae and of some genera of the Scolytidae and Lymoxylidae, whose small cylindrical adults make or initiate tunnels(appearing in cross-section as shotholes, pinholes or needleholes)in green timber and living but generally unhealthy, damaged or dying trees. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "FLAGWORM"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Dutch | houtbroeder (ambrosia beetle, ambrosia borer, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer, spot worm), ambrosiakever (ambrosia beetle, ambrosia borer, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer, spot worm, spruce ambrosia beetle, striped ambrosia beetle). (various references) | |
Finnish | tikaskuoriainen (ambrosia beetle, ambrosia borer, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer, spot worm). (various references) | |
French | scolyte du bois, scolyte ambrosia. (various references) | |
German | Borkenkäfer-Gattung (ambrosia beetle, ambrosia borer, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer, spot worm), Ambrosiakäfer (ambrosia beetle, ambrosia borer, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer, spot worm). (various references) | |
Greek | ξυλέβορος (ambrosia beetle, ambrosia borer, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer, spot worm), Σκολύτης (ambrosia beetle, ambrosia borer, bark beetle, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer, spot worm). (various references) | |
Italian | xileboro (ambrosia beetle, ambrosia borer, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer, spot worm). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | agwormflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | escolitídeos (ambrosia beetle, ambrosia borer, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer, spot worm). (various references) | |
Spanish | perforador de ramas (ambrosia beetle, ambrosia borer, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer, spot worm), coleópteros de ambrosia (ambrosia beetle, ambrosia borer, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer, spot worm). (various references) | |
Swedish | vedborre (ambrosia beetle, ambrosia borer, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer, spot worm), varvsfluga (ambrosia beetle, ambrosia borer, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer, spot worm), trägnagare (ambrosia beetle, ambrosia borer, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer, spot worm), cylinderbagge (ambrosia beetle, ambrosia borer, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer, spot worm). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Xyleborus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-g-l-m-o-r-w" | |
-1 letter: wolfram. | |
-2 letters: formal, glamor. | |
-3 letters: aglow, algor, argol, flora, foram, gloam, goral, growl, largo, molar, moral. | |
-4 letters: alow, awol, farl, farm, faro, flag, flam, flaw, flog, flow, foal, foam, fora, form, fowl, frag, frog, from, frow, gaol, glom, glow, goal, golf, gram, grow, loaf, loam, marl, mola, mora, ogam, oral, roam, rolf, warm, wolf. | |
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