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DENDROCTONUS

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Genus of small bark beetles destructive especially to mature conifers

Synonyms:

Dendroctonus; genus Dendroctonus

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Dendroctonus" is a kind of...):

arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "Dendroctonus"):

Dendroctonus rufipennis; spruce bark beetle (small beetle that likes to bore through the bark of spruce trees and eat the cambium which eventually kills the tree)

Holonyms ("Dendroctonus" is a member of...):

family Ipidae; family Scolytidae; Ipidae; Scolytidae (large family of bark-boring or wood-boring short-beaked beetles; very destructive to forest and fruit trees)

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