| 单词 | shot-hole borer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshot-hole borer shot-hole borer n. a small bark beetle of the family Scolytidæ, esp. Anisandrus dispar (cf. scolytid n.). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Curculionoidea or Rhyncophora > family Scolytidae > member of (bark-beetle) timber-capricorn1803 timber-beetle1841 bark-borer1859 bark-beetle1862 pin borer1890 scolytid1890 timberman1894 engraver beetle1896 ambrosia beetle1897 pinhole borer1916 shot-hole borer1916 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Curculionoidea or Rhyncophora > family Scolytidae > anisandrus dispar (shot-hole borer) shot-hole borer1916 1890 E. A. Ormerod Man. Injurious Insects (ed. 2) 331 I found that the cause of the injury was the ‘Shot-borer’ Beetle (as it is called in America).] 1916 Farmers' Bull. (U.S. Dept. Agric.) No. 763. 2 The shot-hole borers or barkbeetles burrow into the bark. 1927 Sunday Times 13 Feb. 20/4 The Scolytidæ, sometimes called bark-beetles, or shot-hole borers, are a group of tiny beetles with an average length of less than one-eighth of an inch, and most of them are addicted to boring into the trunks and branches of trees. 1968 Oxf. Bk. Insects 190/2 The Shot-hole Borer.., one of the Ambrosia Beetles, is found locally in southern England. < as lemmas |
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