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Sawfly

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Noun

1. sawfly

insect whose female has a saw-like ovipositor for inserting eggs into the leaf or stem tissue of a host plant

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Sawfly

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noun plural -flies
any of various hymenopterous insects of the family Tenthredinidae and related families, the females of which have a sawlike ovipositor

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Sawfly

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nounWord forms: plural ˈsawˌflies
any of various four-winged hymenopteran insects (esp. families Tenthredinidae and Cimbicidae): the abdomen of the female is provided with a pair of sawlike organs that cut into plants, the eggs being then deposited in the cuts

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Sawfly

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n.
Any of numerous hymenopteran insects of the suborder Symphyta, the females of which have sawlike ovipositors used for cutting into plant tissue to deposit their eggs, and the plant-feeding larvae of which sometimes damage crops and trees.

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