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Borer vs Domatium - What's the difference?

borer | domatium |

As nouns the difference between borer and domatium

is that borer is a person who is boring while domatium is (entomology|botany) a chamber produced by a plant in which insects, mites, or fungi live it typically takes the form of a hollow under a leaf, or a system of tunnels in a thorn or stem ideally a domatium is a mutualistic adaptation, not to be confused with simple damage by a borer or gall-forming pest, though commonly there is no sharp distinction between domatia of value to the plant and galls caused by harmful aphids and mites for example.

borer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who is boring
  • A person who bores, who drills.
  • A tool used for drilling.
  • An insect or insect larva that bores into wood.
  • One of the many types of mollusc that bore into soft rock.
  • The hagfish (Myxine ).
    • (Webster 1913)

    Derived terms

    * apple borer * borer bomb * cork-borer * corn borer * instep borer * jig borer * rock-borer * moth-borer * raise borer * squash vine borer * stone-borer * sugar cane borer * sugar-maple borer * twig borer * vine borer * well-borer * wood-borer, woodborer

    Verb

    (head)
    • ---- ==Serbo-Croatian==

    Noun

  • drill bit
  • drill

    • Declension

    {{sh-decl-noun , borer, boreri , borera, borera , boreru, borerima , borer, borere , boreru, boreri , boreru, borerima , borerom, borerima }}

    Synonyms

    * (drill bit) (l) * (drill)

    References

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    domatium

    English

    Noun

    (domatia)
  • (entomology, botany) A chamber produced by a plant in which insects, mites, or fungi live. It typically takes the form of a hollow under a leaf, or a system of tunnels in a thorn or stem. Ideally a domatium is a mutualistic adaptation, not to be confused with simple damage by a borer or gall-forming pest, though commonly there is no sharp distinction between domatia of value to the plant and galls caused by harmful aphids and mites for example.