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SAWYER

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several beetles whose larvae bore holes in dead or dying trees especially conifers

Synonyms:

sawyer; sawyer beetle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

long-horned beetle; longicorn; longicorn beetle (long-bodied beetle having very long antennae)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sawyer"):

pine sawyer (large beetle whose larvae bore holes in pine trees)

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

genus Monochamus; Monochamus (sawyer beetles)

Sense 2

Meaning:

One who is employed to saw wood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

jack; laborer; labourer; manual laborer (someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor)

Derivation:

saw (cut with a saw)

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