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A marine snail, as Urosalpinx cinerca: so named because of its habit of boring through the shells of oysters and other mollusks.
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The larva of the American buprestid beetle, Chrysobothris femorata (which see, with cut); the flat-headed apple-tree borer.
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The larva of a crambid moth, Diatræa saccharalis, which bores in sugar-cane in the West Indies and the southern United States, where it is also known as the larger corn-stalk borer.
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A scolytid beetle, Xyleborus perforans.
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The larva of the sugarcane weevil, a calandrid beetle, Sphenophorus obscurus, common in the islands of the Pacific.
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One who bores or pierces.
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A tool or instrument used for boring; an auger; specifically, in Great Britain, a drill, an implement used in boring holes in rock.
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A name common to many minute coleopterous insects of the group Xylophaga, whose larvæ eat their way into old wood, forming at the bottom of the holes a little cocoon, whence they emerge as small beetles.
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Some other insect which bores, either in the larval or adult state.
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A local English name of the glutinous hag, Myxine glutinosa. See cut under hag.
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A bivalve mollusk which bores into wood or stone, especially one of the family Pholadidœ.
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In entomology, the terebra or ovipositor when it is used for boring, as in many beetles, flies, etc.