DENDROCTONUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Dendroctonus mean? 

• DENDROCTONUS (noun)
  The noun DENDROCTONUS has 1 sense:

1. genus of small bark beetles destructive especially to mature conifers

  Familiarity information: DENDROCTONUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DENDROCTONUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of small bark beetles destructive especially to mature conifers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Dendroctonus; genus Dendroctonus

Hypernyms ("Dendroctonus" is a kind of...):

arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "Dendroctonus"):

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 ("Dendroctonus" 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)