This wood-eating insect gets its name from the Latin for "wood-eating worm"
This wood-eating insect gets its name from the Latin for "wood-eating worm"... [DOC] [TLE] EAT, "ECLIPSE" and ADORN: Cognates in Chinese - SEAlang [PAR] The Shihming (SM: Explanation of Names) denes shih4 ["adorn'l by ... Latin 
tergere, according to W3, is also akin to Latin terere to rub," and ... insect 
classier (radical 142) precisely because it takes its basic meaning from the 
eating habits of ... worm: the termite!