bark beetle
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1. small beetle that bores tunnels in the bark and wood of trees; related to weevils (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | beetle, |
| definition | : | insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | dutch-elm beetle, scolytus multistriatus, |
| definition | : | a vector of the fungus causing Dutch elm disease (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | dendroctonus rufipennis, spruce bark beetle, |
| definition | : | small beetle that likes to bore through the bark of spruce trees and eat the cambium which eventually kills the tree (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | family ipidae, family scolytidae, ipidae, scolytidae, |
| definition | : | large family of bark-boring or wood-boring short-beaked beetles; very destructive to forest and fruit trees (noun.animal) |
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