Search Result for "xestobium rufovillosum":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought to presage death;
[syn: deathwatch beetle, deathwatch, Xestobium rufovillosum]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Xestobium rufovillosum
    n 1: bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought
         to presage death [syn: deathwatch beetle, deathwatch,
         Xestobium rufovillosum]