birch leaf miner

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   small black sawfly native to Europe but established in eastern United States; larvae mine the leaves of birches causing serious defoliation

   SynonymsFenusa pusilla

   Broadersawfly

Questions about birch leaf miner

What does birch leaf miner mean?

birch leaf miner means "small black sawfly native to Europe but established in eastern United States; larvae mine the leaves of birches causing serious defoliation".

What is another word for birch leaf miner?

Close synonyms include Fenusa pusilla. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is birch leaf miner a common word?

birch leaf miner is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.