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SPOT WORM

Specialty Definition: SPOT WORM

DomainDefinition

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.

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Modern Translation: SPOT WORM

Language Translations for "SPOT WORM"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Dutch

  

houtbroeder (ambrosia beetle, ambrosia borer, flagworm, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer), ambrosiakever (ambrosia beetle, ambrosia borer, flagworm, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer, spruce ambrosia beetle, striped ambrosia beetle). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

tikaskuoriainen (ambrosia beetle, ambrosia borer, flagworm, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer). (various references)

   

French

  

scolyte du bois, scolyte ambrosia. (various references)

   

German

  

Borkenkäfer-Gattung (ambrosia beetle, ambrosia borer, flagworm, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer), Ambrosiakäfer (ambrosia beetle, ambrosia borer, flagworm, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ξυλέβορος (ambrosia beetle, ambrosia borer, flagworm, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer), Σκολύτης (ambrosia beetle, ambrosia borer, bark beetle, flagworm, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer). (various references)

   

Italian

  

xileboro (ambrosia beetle, ambrosia borer, flagworm, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otspay ormway

   

Portuguese

  

escolitídeos (ambrosia beetle, ambrosia borer, flagworm, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

perforador de ramas (ambrosia beetle, ambrosia borer, flagworm, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer), coleópteros de ambrosia (ambrosia beetle, ambrosia borer, flagworm, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

vedborre (ambrosia beetle, ambrosia borer, flagworm, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer), varvsfluga (ambrosia beetle, ambrosia borer, flagworm, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer), trägnagare (ambrosia beetle, ambrosia borer, flagworm, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer), cylinderbagge (ambrosia beetle, ambrosia borer, flagworm, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: SPOT WORM

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Xyleborus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: SPOT WORM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "m-o-o-p-r-s-t-w"

-2 letters: motors, promos, tromps, troops.

-3 letters: moors, moots, morts, motor, ports, promo, proms, proso, prost, prows, romps, rooms, roost, roots, rotos, sopor, spoor, sport, stomp, stoop, storm, stowp, strop, strow, swoop, topos, toros, torso, tromp, troop, trows, woops, worms, worst, worts.

-4 letters: moor, moos, moot, mops, mors, mort, most, mots, mows, oops, oots, opts.

 Words containing the letters "m-o-o-p-r-s-t-w"
 

+3 letters: sportswoman, sportswomen.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Translations: Ancient
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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