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PRONUNCIATION OF STONEBORER

stoneborer  [ˈstəʊnˌbɔːrə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF STONEBORER

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Stoneborer is a noun.
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WHAT DOES STONEBORER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of stoneborer in the English dictionary

The definition of stoneborer in the dictionary is an animal that can bore through rocks, especially certain types of bivalve molluscs that bore into limestone.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH STONEBORER


abhorrer
əˈbɔːrə
Andorra
ænˈdɔːrə
aura
ˈɔːrə
aurora
ɔːˈrɔːrə
bombora
bɒmˈbɔːrə
bora
ˈbɔːrə
borer
ˈbɔːrə
corkborer
ˈkɔːkˌbɔːrə
Explorer
ɪkˈsplɔːrə
fedora
fɪˈdɔːrə
flora
ˈflɔːrə
fora
ˈfɔːrə
hora
ˈhɔːrə
laura
ˈlɔːrə
mora
ˈmɔːrə
ora
ˈɔːrə
pandora
pænˈdɔːrə
rasbora
ræzˈbɔːrə
sora
ˈsɔːrə
woodborer
ˈwʊdˌbɔːrə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE STONEBORER

stone-cold
stone-dead
stone-deaf
stone-like
stone-lily
stone´s cast
Stone´s sheep
stone´s throw
stoneable
stoneboat
stonebrash
stonebreak
stonebreaker
stonecast
stonechat
stonecrop
stonecutter
stonecutting
stoned
stonefish

WORDS THAT END LIKE STONEBORER

adorer
armorer
colorer
corer
corn borer
deplorer
favorer
goal scorer
hair restorer
harborer
honorer
ignorer
marine borer
porer
restorer
rock borer
scorer
snorer
storer
taborer

Synonyms and antonyms of stoneborer in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «stoneborer» into 25 languages

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stoneborer
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stoneborer
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510 millions of speakers

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380 millions of speakers
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stoneborer
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stoneborer
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Stoneborer
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stoneborer
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stoneborer
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Translator English - Javanese

Stoneborer
85 millions of speakers
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stoneborer
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stoneborer
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दगडबाजार
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

stoneborer
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

stoneborer
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stoneborer
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stoneborer
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Translator English - Afrikaans

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14 millions of speakers
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stoneborer
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stoneborer
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of stoneborer

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «STONEBORER»

The term «stoneborer» is barely ever used and occupies the 211.772 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about stoneborer

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STONEBORER»

Discover the use of stoneborer in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to stoneborer and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Cooper's Journal: Or, Unfettered Thinker and Plain Speaker ...
W. Kirby, in the Seventh Bridgewater Treatise, which treats of the habits and instincts of animals, gives an account of a curious little creature of the shell-fish tribe, called the stoneborer. Having spoken of several of the stone species, he thus ...
‎1850
2
An English-Welsh pronouncing dictionary: with an analysis of ...
... stôn in dde blad'-der, maen tostedd Stonebells, stôn'-bels, s. pl. clych y cëryg Stoneblind, stön'-bleind, a. cân ddalled a'r gâreg, mor ddall a'r gâreg; cwbl ddall, hollol ddall Stoneborer, stôn'-bör-er, s. tyllydd y gâreg,- tnaendyllydd Stonebow, ...
Thomas Edwards, 1864
3
The Dublin Quarterly Journal of Science
I met none that any well-ordered bivalve might not surmount; at the same time, I do not mean to say that the animal may not be occasionally a stone-borer; but certainly at Ballyvaughan it was no more a stoneborer than the other Holothuriadaa ...
‎1863
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Cooper's Journal: Or, Unfettered Thinker and Plain Speaker ...
W. Kirby, in the Seventh Bridgewater Treatise, which treats of the habits and instincts of animals, gives an account of a curious little creature of the shell-fish tribe, called the stoneborer. Having spoken of several of the stone species, he thus ...
Thomas Cooper, 1850
5
The Young Folks' Cyclopædia of Natural History
STONEBORER. STONEFLY order of the class CRUSTACEA, having a large and long abdomen, with five pairs of buccal, or cheek legs, three pairs of forked legs, and with the gills attached to the abdominal limbs. Included in this order are, the ...
John Denison Champlin, Frederic Augustus Lucas, 1905
6
A jockey's life: the biography of Lester Piggott
Aug Newmarket Stoneborer 476 8 Sir V Sassoon N Murless 7/4F 10 Aug Redcar Vigo Redcar Hep 1,185 6 T H Farr W Dutton 8/1 1F 10 Aug Redcar Sunsque 345 6 Mrs R D Peacock R Peacock 10/1 1F 12 Aug Folkestone Spinosa 207 10 ...
Dick Francis, 1986
7
The New General and Mining Telegraph Code
3 o Stoicisrn 4 o Stoicity 5 o Stokehole 6 o Stokers 7 0 Stolen 8 o Stolidity 9 o Stomacace IO 0 Stomach it o Stomachful 12 o Stomachous 13 o Stomapod I4 0 Stomatitis 15 o Stoneaxe 16 o Stoneblue 17 o Stoneborer 18 o Stonebows 310» 320 ...
Charles Algernon Moreing, Thomas Neal, 1903
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Harvey's A. B. C. domestic code, with appendix: 14000 code ...
... ugly scrape stomachful Has (have) an UltEriOR object in view. . stomachic The Ultimate design is to — stomachous Is that your (his) Ultimatum? stonapod This is the ultimatum stonatitis Refer to our letter of the — Ultimo. . . . stoneborer Refer ...
‎1885
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The New Zealand Journal of Science and Technology: General ...
The following marine borers are found at Millport : — Gribble (Limnoria) : Very plentiful. Shipworm (Teredo) : Three species common. Stoneborer (Saxicava) : Common. Boring sponge (Cliona) : Common in shells. Wood borer (Xylophaga) ...
‎1946
10
Fifty years of plant physiology
... connection with the stoneborer. He found that a certain substance in the animal , viz. luciferine, is oxidized under the action of the enzyme luciferase, which is also present, in which process light is emitted, and that this reaction could also be  ...
Theodorus Weevers, 1949

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