| NOUN | animal | bark beetle | small beetle that bores tunnels in the bark and wood of trees |
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| Meaning | small beetle that bores tunnels in the bark and wood of trees; related to weevils. | |
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| Member of | Scolytidae, family Scolytidae, Ipidae, family Ipidae | large family of bark-boring or wood-boring short-beaked beetles |
| Narrower | Dutch-elm beetle, Scolytus multistriatus | A vector of the fungus causing Dutch elm disease |
| spruce bark beetle, Dendroctonus rufipennis | small beetle that likes to bore through the bark of spruce trees and eat the cambium which eventually kills the tree | |
| Broader | beetle | insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings |
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