wood bug

English

Alternative forms

• wood-bug, woodbug

Noun

wood bug (plural wood bugs)

1. Any insect or invertebrate that feeds on or otherwise attacks wood.
   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 193:

     In the space about the hut her search went on, lifting old tins and boxes and timber to disturb the flat grey woodbugs under them, but finding nothing else there.

Translations

insect living in wood

• Ingrian: puuitikka