spruce bark beetle

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1. small beetle that likes to bore through the bark of spruce trees and eat the cambium which eventually kills the tree (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	bark beetle,
definition	:	small beetle that bores tunnels in the bark and wood of trees; related to weevils (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	dendroctonus, genus dendroctonus,
definition	:	genus of small bark beetles destructive especially to mature conifers (noun.animal)