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bookworm

common name for any insect which bores through books
Class type of: pest insect Q3249808

Facts

4 properties
Instance of
organisms known by a particular common name
Subclass of
pest insect[2]
Different from
bibliophage[3]
Taxon known by this common name
Psocoptera, Cryptotermes brevis, Incisitermes minor, Gastrallus[4][5][6][7]
🏷️ Also known as
en bookworm ar دودة الكتب cs knihomol da bogorm de Bücherwurm es Polilla de los libros fr Parasites du livre id Kutu buku ja シミ ja 紙虫 nl boekenworm nl boekenwurm pl Mól książkowy ru книжный червь sv bokmal sv bokmask zh 書蟲
🔖 Identifiers · 5
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Bookworm Grub and the damage done.jpg ↗
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
animal/bookworm
Freebase ID
/m/02wqlx
Lex ID
bogorm
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["Concept", "Pedant::578h3"]

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🔗 Connections
Taxon known by this common name 4
Psocoptera, Gastrallus, Incisitermes minor, Cryptotermes brevis
Named after 1
BookWyrm
Subclass of 1
pest insect
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Summary

bookworm is an organisms known by a particular common name[1].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for bookworm include BookWyrm[8], a social networking service[9], founded in 2022[10].

Why It Matters

Entities named for bookworm include BookWyrm[8], a social networking service[9], founded in 2022[10].

Related Entities

BookWyrm

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [9] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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