noun
small beetle that likes to bore through the bark of spruce trees and eat the cambium which eventually kills the tree
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the spruce bark beetle is the major tree-killing insect pest of Alaska spruce forests
• Syn: ↑Dendroctonus rufipennis
• Hypernyms: ↑bark beetle
• Member Holonyms: ↑Dendroctonus, ↑genus Dendroctonus
Useful english dictionary. 2012.