Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An insect which bores into apple-trees, as the round-headed apple-borer (larva of Saperda candida), or the flat-headed apple-tree borer (larva of Chryso-bothris femorata). See cuts under
Saperda and Chrysobothris.
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Examples
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Dig out or kill with a wire, as in the case of the apple-borer.
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