BARK BEETLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bark beetle mean? 

• BARK BEETLE (noun)
  The noun BARK BEETLE has 1 sense:

1. small beetle that bores tunnels in the bark and wood of trees; related to weevils

  Familiarity information: BARK BEETLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BARK BEETLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small beetle that bores tunnels in the bark and wood of trees; related to weevils

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("bark beetle" is a kind of...):

beetle (insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bark beetle"):

Dutch-elm beetle; Scolytus multistriatus (a vector of the fungus causing Dutch elm disease)

Dendroctonus rufipennis; spruce bark beetle (small beetle that likes to bore through the bark of spruce trees and eat the cambium which eventually kills the tree)

Holonyms ("bark beetle" is a member of...):

family Ipidae; family Scolytidae; Ipidae; Scolytidae (large family of bark-boring or wood-boring short-beaked beetles; very destructive to forest and fruit trees)