carpenterworm
noun
car·pen·ter·worm
: the wood-boring larva of the American goat moth (Prionoxystus robiniae) that bores large galleries in livng trees and is especially destructive to oaks and locusts
Word History
Etymology
so called from its wood boring
- hanging indention
- hanging it up
- hanging keel
- hanging lie
- hanging lobster claw
- hanging lobster claws
- hanging loose
- hanging moss
- hanging off
- hanging on
- hanging on to
- hanging one on
- hanging out
- hanging over
- hanging paper
- hanging participle
- hanging post
- hanging rail
- hanging side
- hanging sleeve
- hanging stairs
- hanging stile
- hanging together
- hanging up
- hanging valley