pine sawyer

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   large beetle whose larvae bore holes in pine trees

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Questions about pine sawyer

What does pine sawyer mean?

pine sawyer means "large beetle whose larvae bore holes in pine trees".

Is pine sawyer a common word?

pine sawyer 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.