Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun dendroctonus_rufipennis

1 sense of dendroctonus rufipennis

Sense 1
spruce bark beetle, Dendroctonus rufipennis -- (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")
       => bark beetle -- (small beetle that bores tunnels in the bark and wood of trees; related to weevils)