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white pine weevil

noun

Definition of white pine weevil

: a small elongated brownish weevil (Pissodes strobi) that feeds in and destroys the new shoots of white pine and Norway spruce and sometimes of other pines and spruces

First Known Use of white pine weevil

1817, in the meaning defined above

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