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borer
borer is a 5-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One that bores; an instrument for boring. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 7 senses
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- 1noun
One that bores; an instrument for boring.
- 2noun
A marine, bivalve mollusk, of the genus Teredo and allies, which burrows in wood. See Teredo.
- 3noun
Any bivalve mollusk (Saxicava, Lithodomus, etc.) which bores into limestone and similar substances.
- 4noun
One of the larvae of many species of insects, which penetrate trees, as the apple, peach, pine, etc. See Apple borer, under Apple.
- 5noun
The hagfish (Myxine).
- 6noun
any of various insects or larvae or mollusks that bore into wood
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- 7noun
a drill for penetrating rock
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