woodworm

Etymology

From wood + worm.

woodworm means any of many beetle larvae that bore into wood. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 92 out of 100.

noun

Any of many beetle larvae that bore into wood.“1599, Simon Harward, “A Displaying of the wilfull deuises of wicked and vaine worldlings” in Three Sermons, London: Richard Johns, […] Chrisostome doth compaire enuie to the wood worm which though it doe breede in the tymber, yet it doth consume & waste the tymber, as enuie springing of the heart doth putrifie and vtterly eat vp the heart.”
Any of many beetle larvae that bore into wood.; Anobium punctatum (common furniture beetle).
A shipworm, a worm-like mollusk in the family Teredinidae that feeds on wood underwater in saltwater.