bark beetle
small beetle that digs tunnels in the bark of trees | ||||
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Bark beetle Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |
Bark beetle
A small beetle of many species (family Scolytidae), which in the larval state bores under or in the bark of trees, often doing great damage.
A small beetle of many species (family Scolytidae), which in the larval state bores under or in the bark of trees, often doing great damage.
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bark beetle
Noun
1. small beetle that bores tunnels in the bark and wood of trees; related to weevils
(hypernym) beetle
(hyponym) Dutch-elm beetle, Scolytus multistriatus
(member-holonym) Scolytidae, family Scolytidae, Ipidae, family Ipidae
Noun
1. small beetle that bores tunnels in the bark and wood of trees; related to weevils
(hypernym) beetle
(hyponym) Dutch-elm beetle, Scolytus multistriatus
(member-holonym) Scolytidae, family Scolytidae, Ipidae, family Ipidae
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bark beetle
bark beetle
\bark" bee`tle\ (&?;). (zo?l.) a small beetle of many species (family scolytid?), which in the larval state bores under or in the bark of trees, often doing great damage.
bark beetle
\bark" bee`tle\ (&?;). (zo?l.) a small beetle of many species (family scolytid?), which in the larval state bores under or in the bark of trees, often doing great damage.
Bark beetle Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Bark beetle
A bark beetle is one of approximately 220 genera with 6,000 species of beetles in the subfamily Scolytinae in the weevil family Curculionidae (traditionally the bark beetles were placed in their own family Scolytidae). The best known European species (since they transmit Dutch Elm Disease are in the type genus Scolytus
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