woodworm noun3 •Any of many beetle larvae that bore into wood.His father met a man who said that he had the figure from a ship which went aground near Blackwater Head. It would have to be treated for woodworm, he said. — 1992 •Anobium punctatum (common furniture beetle). •A shipworm, a worm-like mollusk in the family Teredinidae that feeds on wood underwater in saltwater. formswoodworms