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DENDROCTONUS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of small bark beetles destructive especially to mature conifers
Synonyms:
Dendroctonus; genus Dendroctonus
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Dendroctonus" is a kind of...):
arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)
Meronyms (members of "Dendroctonus"):
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 ("Dendroctonus" 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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