Deathwatch synonyms
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deathwatch-beetle
Any of several wood-boring beetles of the family Anobiidae that make a clicking sound with the head from inside furniture and other wooden structures. The sound has traditionally been regarded as a portent of death.
Xestobium rufovillosum
bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought to presage death
Any of the small insects who feed on bookbindings, especially those of the order Psocoptera.
Any of various small, usually wingless, insects (order Psocoptera) that infest and destroy old books
minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers
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