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dendroctonus rufipennis is a noun meaning "small beetle that likes to bore through the bark of spruce trees and eat the cambium which eventually kills the tree". It carries one recorded sense.
small beetle that likes to bore through the bark of spruce trees and eat the cambium which eventually kills the tree
“the spruce bark beetle is the major tree-killing insect pest of Alaska spruce forests”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for dendroctonus rufipennis come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.