furniture beetle

British  

noun

1. See anobiid

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Example Sentences

Bright green lighting fixtures hanging throughout the facility trap and kill dangerous enemies like the common furniture beetle.

From Seattle Times

By the way, Anobii is derived from the Latin name for the common furniture beetle, Anobium punctatum, aka the bookworm.

From The Guardian

It turned out that prints from northern Europe had wormholes about five-hundredths of an inch wide, probably caused by Anobium punctatum, the common furniture beetle; prints from the south had larger circles, about nine-hundredths of an inch wide, probably caused by the Mediterranean furniture beetle.

From New York Times

By process of elimination, he identified two likely culprits: the common furniture beetle and the Mediterranean furniture beetle.

From Science Magazine

Using that information, Hedges found that until 1899, an invisible line through Central Europe split these two species’ ranges cleanly down the middle, bisecting France, with the common furniture beetle occurring only in the north and the Mediterranean furniture beetle occurring only in the south.

From Science Magazine