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banded hickory borer

noun

Etymology

From banded + hickory + borer. "Banded" is from a partial calque of translingual Knulliana cincta (“banded Knulliana”).

  1. inherited from *burōną✻
  2. inherited from *borōn✻
  3. inherited from borian — “to pierce”
  4. inherited from boren
  5. suffixed as borer — “bore + er”

Definitions

  1. A species of brown longhorn beetle (Knulliana cincta) with orange patterns, found in the…

    A species of brown longhorn beetle (Knulliana cincta) with orange patterns, found in the southern United States, certain northern areas of Mexico, and the Bahamas.

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