death-watch beetle
1Death watch beetle — Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum …
2death-watch beetle — ˌdeath watch ˈbeetle f12 [death watch beetle death watch beetles] noun a small insect that eats into old wood, making sounds like a watch ↑ticking …
3death-watch beetle — ► NOUN ▪ a beetle whose larvae bore into dead wood and structural timbers. ORIGIN so called because it makes a sound like a watch ticking, formerly believed to portend death …
4death-watch beetle — noun a small beetle whose larvae bore into and damage dead wood and structural timbers, making a sound like a watch ticking which was formerly believed to portend death. [Xestobium rufovillosum.] …
5death-watch beetle — noun A woodboring beetle, namely a beetle whose larvae are xylophagous …
6death|watch — «DEHTH WOCH, WCH», noun. 1. a watch kept beside a dying or dead person. 2. a guard for a person about to be put to death. 3. a small, destructive beetle that lives in wood and makes a ticking sound which was once believed to foretell death …
7death — O.E. deað death, dying, cause of death, in plura, ghosts, from P.Gmc. *dauthaz (Cf. O.S. doth, O.Fris. dath, Du. dood, O.H.G. tod, Ger. Tod, O.N. dauði, Dan. dèd, Swed. död, Goth. dauþas death ), from verbal stem …
8Beetle — Beetles redirects here. For the band, see The Beatles. For the car, see Volkswagen Beetle. This article is about the insect. For other uses, see Beetle (disambiguation). Beetle Temporal range: 318–0 Ma …
9Death — n. 1 the final cessation of vital functions in an organism; the ending of life. 2 the event that terminates life. 3 a the fact or process of being killed or killing (stone to death; fight to the death). b the fact or state of being dead (eyes… …
10death — n. 1 the final cessation of vital functions in an organism; the ending of life. 2 the event that terminates life. 3 a the fact or process of being killed or killing (stone to death; fight to the death). b the fact or state of being dead (eyes… …
