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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name also given to various scolytid beetles which make minute holes in the bark of infested trees.
- noun The pear-blight beetle, Xyleborus dispar, of the family Scolytidæ: so called from the small round punctures, like large pinholes, which it makes through the bark.
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