Word

Dendroctonus rufipennis, n.

small beetle that likes to bore through the bark of spruce trees and eat the cambium which eventually kills the tree
<noun.animal>

Dendroctonus rufipennis spruce bark beetle

sample sentences

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

semantic pointers

member holonym

Dendroctonus, genus Dendroctonus

hypernym

bark beetle