| 单词 | pine-borer |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspine-borer pine-borer n. any of various insect larvae, esp. those of longhorn beetles, which bore into the wood of pine trees. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Phytophaga or Chrysomeloidea > family Cerambycidae > miscellaneous others sawyer1789 wood-beetle1795 tickler1841 milkweed beetle1842 pine-borer1862 harlequin beetle1865 hickory girdler1869 1862 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1861: Agric. 614 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (37th Congr., 2nd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 39) V The larvæ [sic] of this insect is evidently a pine-borer, for I have found it about saw-mills. 1977 Listener 20 Oct. 503/3 A specimen of the New Zealand pine-borer; Prinoplus reticularis. 2003 St. John's (Newfoundland) Telegram (Nexis) 10 May a11 You can find the piled sawdust leavings of the pine-borers, and..you can hear the gritch, gritch, gritch of their inching progress. < as lemmas |
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