Meaning

6 senses
  1. Any beetle or moth that bores into the trunks of apple and other fruit trees as larvae, including:

    A roundheaded apple borer (Saperda candida, syn. Saperda bivittata)

  2. A flatheaded appletree borer (Chrysobothris femorata)

  3. A red-belted clearwing, apple clearwing moth (Synanthedon myopaeformis)

  4. An apple stem borer (Apriona cinerea)

  5. An apple twig borer (Amphicerus bicaudatus)

  6. An apple trunk borer (Coryphodema tristis)

Forms

plural: apple borers
Singularapple borer
Pluralapple borers

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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