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Sawfly Moderate

Sawfly has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

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

2

Any of various flying insects of the suborder Symphyta whose ovipositor is long and often serrated and is used to cut into plants to lay eggs.

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
hymenopterous insect
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
birch leaf miner
Rhyming Words
fly oxfly refly mcfly befly barfly liefly naifly owlfly selfly wolfly apefly gadfly mayfly waffly bobfly dayfly ruffly medfly chefly
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