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Meaning of carcomido



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Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

carcomido
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It refers to a piece of wood that has been attacked by Woodworm, wood damaged or pitch to lose by the attack of xylophagous insects.

  



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Felipe Lorenzo del Río

Masculine singular of carcomer participle: affected by Woodworm, Coleoptera insect repellent that, when it is larva, eat the dry wood and preferably soft, poplar or pine, making small galleries inside to destroy it completely. When the larva develops into insect sale abroad leaving a small hole and traces of sawdust or dust, symptoms that the wood is in danger. There are chemical remedies against this insect. As well as destroyed by the Woodworm, carcomido worm-eaten can have other meanings figuratively, as when it is said of a person: so-and-so is rotten by envy

  

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Margarito Cázares Guerrero

It is said of any type of piece, piece of furniture or object showing missing children or deterioration in its structure, by age, neglect or bad treatment

  










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