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Girdler
(gcide) | Girdler \Gir"dler\, n.
1. One who girdles.
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2. A maker of girdles.
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3. (Zool.) An American longicorn beetle ({Oncideres
cingulatus}) which lays its eggs in the twigs of the
hickory, and then girdles each branch by gnawing a groove
around it, thus killing it to provide suitable food for
the larv[ae].
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Twig girdler
(gcide) | Twig \Twig\, n. [AS. twig; akin to D. twijg, OHG. zw[imac]g,
zw[imac], G. zweig, and probably to E. two.]
A small shoot or branch of a tree or other plant, of no
definite length or size.
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The Britons had boats made of willow twigs, covered on
the outside with hides. --Sir W.
Raleigh.
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Twig borer (Zool.), any one of several species of small
beetles which bore into twigs of shrubs and trees, as the
apple-tree twig borer (Amphicerus bicaudatus).
Twig girdler. (Zool.) See Girdler, 3.
Twig rush (Bot.), any rushlike plant of the genus Cladium
having hard, and sometimes prickly-edged, leaves or
stalks. See Saw grass, under Saw.
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