deathwatch beetle

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deathwatch beetles
tahtakurdu böcekleri
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Any of various beetles of the family Anobiidae that bore into wood and make a tapping sound
bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought to presage death
Any one of several beetles of the family Anobiidae, especially Xestobium rufovillosum, whose head makes a clicking sound as it burrows into wood or wooden structures. The sound was superstitiously regarded as a portent of death. Borer insect (beetle species Xestobium refuvillosum) that tends to be small (less than 0.5 in., or 1-9 mm) and cylindrical. When disturbed, it usually pulls in its legs and plays dead. It makes a ticking or clicking sound by bumping its head or jaws against the sides of the tunnels it creates as it bores into old furniture and wood, a sound that, according to superstition, forecasts a death
deathwatch beetles
plural form of deathwatch beetle
a deathwatch beetle
deathwatch
deathwatch beetles
anobiidae
deathwatch beetle

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    death·watch bee·tle

    Турецкое произношение

    dethwäç bitıl

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    /ˈdeᴛʜˌwäʧ ˈbētəl/ /ˈdɛθˌwɑːʧ ˈbiːtəl/
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