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Bark beetle
(gcide) | Bark beetle \Bark" bee`tle\ (Zool.)
A small beetle of many species (family Scolytid[ae]), which
in the larval state bores under or in the bark of trees,
often doing great damage.
[1913 Webster] |
bark beetle
(wn) | bark beetle
n 1: small beetle that bores tunnels in the bark and wood of
trees; related to weevils |
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spruce bark beetle
(encz) | spruce bark beetle, n: |
Bark beetle
(gcide) | Bark beetle \Bark" bee`tle\ (Zool.)
A small beetle of many species (family Scolytid[ae]), which
in the larval state bores under or in the bark of trees,
often doing great damage.
[1913 Webster] |
spruce bark beetle
(wn) | spruce bark beetle
n 1: small beetle that likes to bore through the bark of spruce
trees and eat the cambium which eventually kills the tree;
"the spruce bark beetle is the major tree-killing insect
pest of Alaska spruce forests" [syn: spruce bark beetle,
Dendroctonus rufipennis] |
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