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noun
Any of various flying insects of the suborder Symphyta, within the order Hymenoptera, whose ovipositor is long and often serrated and is used to cut into plants to lay eggs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
insect whose female has a saw-like ovipositor for inserting eggs into the leaf or stem tissue of a host plant
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: hymenopterous insect, hymenopteran, hymenopteron, hymenopter
Narrower terms: birch leaf miner, Fenusa pusilla
History
From saw + fly.
Across languages
14 source translations are retained for this English entry.
