SPRUCE BARK BEETLE

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Meaning:

Small beetle that likes to bore through the bark of spruce trees and eat the cambium which eventually kills the tree

Example:

the spruce bark beetle is the major tree-killing insect pest of Alaska spruce forests

Synonyms:

Dendroctonus rufipennis; spruce bark beetle

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("spruce bark beetle" is a kind of...):

bark beetle (small beetle that bores tunnels in the bark and wood of trees; related to weevils)

Holonyms ("spruce bark beetle" is a member of...):

Dendroctonus; genus Dendroctonus (genus of small bark beetles destructive especially to mature conifers)