wood-destroying insect

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• Wood — /wood/, n. 1. Grant, 1892 1942, U.S. painter. 2. Leonard, 1860 1927, U.S. military doctor and political administrator. * * * I Hard, fibrous material formed by the accumulation of secondary xylem produced by the vascular cambium. It is the… …   Universalium

• wood — wood1 woodless, adj. /wood/, n. 1. the hard, fibrous substance composing most of the stem and branches of a tree or shrub, and lying beneath the bark; the xylem. 2. the trunks or main stems of trees as suitable for architectural and other… …   Universalium

• insect — insectival /in sek tuy veuhl/, adj. /in sekt/, n. 1. any animal of the class Insecta, comprising small, air breathing arthropods having the body divided into three parts (head, thorax, and abdomen), and having three pairs of legs and usually two… …   Universalium

• WIR — UNCTAD World Investment Report (Governmental » United Nations) * Wyoming Internet Resources (Business » Firms) * Western Properties Trust (Business » AMEX Symbols) * Wood Infestation Report (Governmental » US Government) * West Indian Reports… …   Abbreviations dictionary

• WDI — World Development Indicators (Governmental » United Nations) William Davidson Institute (Academic & Science » Universities) William Davidson Institute (Community » Non Profit Organizations) * Walt Disney Imagineering (Business » Firms) * Wood… …   Abbreviations dictionary

• WDIS — Who Do I Start? (Community » Sports) *** Workforce Development Information System (Governmental » US Government) *** Workforce Development Information System (Business » International Business) * Wood Destroying insect Information Report… …   Abbreviations dictionary

• Orkin — Orkin’s pest specialists use trucks (like the one pictured above) for customer service calls. Orkin is a pest control company that is a wholly owned subsidiary of Rollins Inc. Contents …   Wikipedia

• Dry rot treatment — refers to the techniques used to eliminate dry rot fungus and alleviate the damage done by the fungus to human built wooden structures. The commonly held view of an outbreak of the dry rot fungus (Serpula lacrymans) within a building is that it… …   Wikipedia

• piciform — [pi′sə fôrm΄] adj. of, or having the nature of, an order (Piciformes) of birds, including woodpeckers and toucans, having two front and two hind toes for clinging to vertical surfaces * * * ▪ bird Introduction  any member of the group of birds… …   Universalium

• plant disease — ▪ plant pathology Introduction       an impairment of the normal state of a plant that interrupts or modifies its vital functions.       All species of plants, wild and cultivated alike, are subject to disease. Although each species is… …   Universalium

• Termite — Not to be confused with Termit (disambiguation), Thermite, or Turmite. This article is about insects. For other uses, see Termite (disambiguation). Termite Temporal range: 228–0 Ma …   Wikipedia