dendroctonus : Idioms & Phrases

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dendroctonus rufipennis

  • noun small beetle that likes to bore through the bark of spruce trees and eat the cambium which eventually kills the tree
    spruce bark beetle.
    • the spruce bark beetle is the major tree-killing insect pest of Alaska spruce forests
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genus dendroctonus

  • noun genus of small bark beetles destructive especially to mature conifers
    Dendroctonus.
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