| 单词 | pine beetle |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspine beetle pine beetle n. any of various beetles that are pests of pine trees (usually with distinguishing word); esp. a pine bark beetle or (formerly) a pine chafer. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > member of jumping-beetle1817 pine bark beetle1840 pine beetle1857 1857 A. Fitch 4th Rep. Noxious & Other Insects N.Y. 747 White-Necked Pine-Beetle Dichelonycha albicollis... A small beetle half an inch long..and resembling the Rose bug. 1872 Chambers's Encycl. VII. 549/1 Pine-chafer, or Pine-beetle (Hylurgus piniperda)..is often very destructive to Scotch firs. 1972 L. A. Swan & C. S. Papp Common Insects N. Amer. 502 D[endroctonus] ponderosae..and D. monticolae, the Mountain Pine Beetle, are now considered to be one species. 1993 New Scientist 31 July 25/2 Electrochemical methods to synthesise..brevicomin, the sex attractant of the western pine beetle. < as lemmas |
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