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furniture beetle

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.46 in modern English

Syllables
fur-ni-ture bee-tle
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of various species of wood-boring beetle, the larvae of which are a type of woodworm, especially Anobium punctatum, the common furniture beetle.

Inflected Forms

furniture beetles (plural)

Rhymes With

beetle cigarette beetle fetal colorado potato beetle fungus beetle baetyl

Questions

What does furniture beetle mean?
Any of various species of wood-boring beetle, the larvae of which are a type of woodworm, especially Anobium punctatum, the common furniture beetle.

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