Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
Urocerus .
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Examples
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Thus, for example, the president requested $330 million to deal with plant pests like the emerald ash borer, the light brown apple moth and the sirex woodwasp.
EarMark Kirk At It Again Ellen Beth Gill 2008
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Nasties from New Zealand that have become established in Australia include orange hawkweed, perennial grass, mirror plant, toetoe, New Zealand flax, lettuce aphid, the cabbage white butterfly, the sirex wood wasp, needle blight, and the monterey pine aphid.
unknown title 2009
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Nasties from New Zealand that have become established in Australia include orange hawkweed, perennial grass, mirror plant, toetoe, New Zealand flax, lettuce aphid, the cabbage white butterfly, the sirex wood wasp, needle blight, and the monterey pine aphid.
unknown title 2009
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Recently, the DEC has discovered Asian long-horned beetles, hemlock wooly adelgids, pine shoot beetles and sirex wood wasps infesting urban and rural forests and killing thousands of trees.
yarb commented on the word sirex
A wood-wasp or horntail of the genus Sirex, whose larvæ burrow into the trunks of trees.
- OED2
December 28, 2008