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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small lignivorous beetle of the family Scolytidæ, as Xyloborus dispar, which bores holes in trees to such an extent that they seem to have been peppered with bird-shot; a pin-borer. See cuts under
borer and pin-borer.
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