Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Boring with a terebra, as a hymenopterous insect; of or pertaining to the Terebrantia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Boring, or adapted for boring; -- said of certain Hymenoptera, as the sawflies.
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- adjective of an insect That
bores
Etymologies
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Latin terebrans, -antis, present participle
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Examples
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He spaded and mulched and pruned it, and guarded it in the winter from rodent rabbits and in summer from terebrant grubs.
Not Pretty, but Precious Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford 1878
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Many a terebrant I have known who, in that capacity, to borrow a line from Coleridge,
Over the Teacups Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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Many a terebrant I have known who, in that capacity, to borrow a line from Coleridge,
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
Logophile77 commented on the word terebrant
Boring; piercing; used figuratively, as in the term terebrant pain.
https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/terebrant
December 4, 2017