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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