dendroctonus rufipennis

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymsspruce bark beetle

   Broaderbark beetle

   Part ofDendroctonus

Questions about dendroctonus rufipennis

What does dendroctonus rufipennis mean?

dendroctonus rufipennis means "small beetle that likes to bore through the bark of spruce trees and eat the cambium which eventually kills the tree".

What is another word for dendroctonus rufipennis?

Close synonyms include spruce bark beetle. 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 dendroctonus rufipennis a common word?

dendroctonus rufipennis 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.