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stem borer

noun

Etymology

From stem + borer.

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

Definitions

  1. Any insect larva, or arthropod, that bores into plant stems.

    • The Manitoba maple was subject to a stem-borer which destroyed its growing tips, and in any case it had a diffuse, shrubby growth which never concentrated naturally into a single trunk.

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