Bookworm: Definition and part of speech

Bookworm

  1. n. A student closely attached to books or addicted to study; a reader without appreciation.
  2. n. Any larva of a beetle or moth, which is injurious to books. Many species are known.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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