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stem borer en · NOUN

Etymology

From stem + borer.

Meanings

1. Any insect larva, or arthropod, that bores into plant stems.
   • The Manitoba maple was subject to a stem-borer which destroyed its growing tips, and in any case it had a diffuse, shrubby growth which never concentrated naturally into a single trunk. 1972, James M. Minifie, Homesteader, A Prairie Boyhood Recalled, page 121:

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