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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any one of several species of bark-beetles, as Xyloteres bivittatus, Xyleborus cælatus, Crypturgus atomus, and Hylurgops pinifex.
- noun The buprestid Melanophila longipes and allied species.
- noun The cerambycids Rhagium lineatum and Xylotrechns undulatus.
- noun Various other species, including the white-pine weevil, Pissodes strobi.
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