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ˈsaw-fly
[saw n.1]
An insect of the family Tenthredinidæ, distinguished by the saw-like construction of the ovipositor.
The saw-flies are very destructive to vegetation, and several species are designated from the plants attacked by them, as pine saw-fly, rose saw-fly, turnip saw-fly.
1773T. P. Yeats Inst. Entom. 177 The Tenthredo is called, by some English Authors, the Saw-fly, from the formation of its sting, which differs from that of all other insects..in being dentated..like the instrument from which its name is taken. 1802Bingley Anim. Biog. (1813) III. 249 The saw-fly of the gooseberry-tree. 1840[see rose n. 23 c]. 1851H. Stephens Bk. Farm (1855) II. 74 The turnip saw-fly, Athalia spinarum. 1886Encycl. Brit. XXI. 343/1 The Pine Saw-Fly (Lophyrus pini) causes great damage to plantations of young Scotch firs.
attrib.1816Kirby & Sp. Entomol. xxiii. (1818) II. 331 The saw-fly tribes (Tenthredinidæ). |