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microborer

noun

Etymology

From micro- + borer.

  1. inherited from *burōną✻
  2. inherited from *borōn✻
  3. inherited from borian — “to pierce”
  4. inherited from boren
  5. suffixed as borer — “bore + er”
  6. prefixed as microborer — “micro + borer”

Definitions

  1. Any microorganism that bores into a substrate

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for microborer. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA