bark beetle
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Noun (1)
- small beetle that bores tunnels in the bark and wood of trees; related to weevilsType of beetleKinds spruce bark beetle, Dutch-elm beetleMember of Scolytidae, family Scolytidae
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Bark′ bee′tle (…).
Zoology A small beetle of many species (family Scolytidæ), which in the larval state bores under or in the bark of trees, often doing great damage.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54