English noun: Dendroctonus rufipennis | |||
| 1. | Dendroctonus rufipennis (animal) small beetle that likes to bore through the bark of spruce trees and eat the cambium which eventually kills the tree | ||
| Samples | The spruce bark beetle is the major tree-killing insect pest of Alaska spruce forests. | ||
| Synonyms | spruce bark beetle | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | bark beetle | ||
| Member meronym | Dendroctonus, genus Dendroctonus | ||