borer

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈbɔːɹə/    美 /ˈbɔːɹɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A tool used for drilling.
  2. A knife fit for a stabbing. Multicultural-London-English,slang
  3. A person who bores or drills; a person employed to drill bore holes.
  4. A tedious person, who bores others; a bore.
    — The boree has been heard from frequently since the Renaissance, and his sentiments have undergone little change. The borer hasn't had much to say for himself.
  5. An insect or insect larva that bores into wood.
  6. One of the many types of mollusc that bore into soft rock.
  7. A cyclostome, such as a hagfish, which bores into injured, dead, or decaying sea creatures to feed on their flesh.
  8. The penetrating root of a parasitic plant.

词形变化

borers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
African sugarcane borer apple borer ash borer Asian corn borer banded hickory borer borer bomb boxhole borer bud borer bumelia borer cork-borer cork borer corn borer crotalaria pod borer emerald ash borer European corn borer fruit borer increment borer instep borer jig borer locust borer loosestrife borer macroborer microborer moth-borer poplar borer raise borer raspberry crown borer rock-borer squash vine borer stalkborer stemborer stem borer stone-borer sugar cane borer sugar-maple borer twig borer two-lined chestnut borer vine borer wax-borer well-borer wharf borer wood-borer woodborer yucca borer

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH-der.
Proto-Germanic *burōną
Proto-West Germanic *borōn
Old English borian
Middle English boren
English bore
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English borer
From bore + -er.
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