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    GENUS DENDROCTONUS

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Genus of small bark beetles destructive especially to mature conifersplay

    Synonyms:

    Dendroctonus; genus Dendroctonus

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    Nouns denoting animals

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

    arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)

    Meronyms (members of "genus 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 ("genus 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)

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