Dendroctonus

Dendroctonus: noun

genus of small bark beetles destructive especially to mature conifers

• Syn: ↑genus Dendroctonus

• Hypernyms: ↑arthropod genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Scolytidae, ↑family Scolytidae, ↑Ipidae, ↑family Ipidae

• Member Meronyms: ↑spruce bark beetle, ↑Dendroctonus rufipennis

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\\-ˈdräktənəs\ noun
Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from dendr- + Greek ktonos murder; from their destructiveness

: a genus of small bark beetles that are especially destructive to mature coniferous trees and that have a large prothorax, short clubbed elbowed antennae, serrated tibiae, and spiny elytra

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