| NOUN | animal | 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 |
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| Meaning | small beetle that likes to bore through the bark of spruce trees and eat the cambium which eventually kills the tree. | |
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| Example | "the spruce bark beetle is the major tree-killing insect pest of Alaska spruce forests" | |
| Synonym | Dendroctonus rufipennis | |
| Member of | Dendroctonus, genus Dendroctonus | genus of small bark beetles destructive especially to mature conifers |
| Broader | bark beetle | small beetle that bores tunnels in the bark and wood of trees |
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