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BARK BEETLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small beetle that bores tunnels in the bark and wood of trees; related to weevils
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("bark beetle" is a kind of...):
beetle (insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bark beetle"):
Dutch-elm beetle; Scolytus multistriatus (a vector of the fungus causing Dutch elm disease)
Dendroctonus rufipennis; spruce bark beetle (small beetle that likes to bore through the bark of spruce trees and eat the cambium which eventually kills the tree)
Holonyms ("bark beetle" is a member of...):
family Ipidae; family Scolytidae; Ipidae; Scolytidae (large family of bark-boring or wood-boring short-beaked beetles; very destructive to forest and fruit trees)
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