spruce bark beetle (n)
Dendroctonus rufipennis (n)

n02180427

type n
lex_filenum 05
def small beetle that likes to bore through the bark of spruce trees and eat the cambium which eventually kills the tree
examples the spruce bark beetle is the major tree-killing insect pest of Alaska spruce forests
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Hypernym bark beetle
Member holonym Dendroctonus, genus Dendroctonus
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Member meronym Dendroctonus, genus Dendroctonus
Hyponym bark beetle

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