Search Result for "spruce bark beetle":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. small beetle that likes to bore through the bark of spruce trees and eat the cambium which eventually kills the tree;
- Example: "the spruce bark beetle is the major tree-killing insect pest of Alaska spruce forests"
[syn: spruce bark beetle, Dendroctonus rufipennis]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

spruce bark beetle
    n 1: small beetle that likes to bore through the bark of spruce
         trees and eat the cambium which eventually kills the tree;
         "the spruce bark beetle is the major tree-killing insect
         pest of Alaska spruce forests" [syn: spruce bark beetle,
         Dendroctonus rufipennis]