sawfly

English Thesaurus

1. insect whose female has a saw-like ovipositor for inserting eggs into the leaf or stem tissue of a host plant (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	hymenopter, hymenopteran, hymenopteron, hymenopterous insect,
definition	:	insects having two pairs of membranous wings and an ovipositor specialized for stinging or piercing (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	birch leaf miner, fenusa pusilla,
definition	:	small black sawfly native to Europe but established in eastern United States; larvae mine the leaves of birches causing serious defoliation (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	family tenthredinidae, tenthredinidae,
definition	:	sawflies (noun.animal)