AMBROSIA BORER

  

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AMBROSIA BORER

Specialty Definition: AMBROSIA BORER

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Food & Agriculture

A member of the(mainly tropical)family Platypodidae and of some genera of the Scolytidae and Lymoxylidae, whose small cylindrical adults make or initiate tunnels(appearing in cross-section as shotholes, pinholes or needleholes)in green timber and living but generally unhealthy, damaged or dying trees. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: AMBROSIA BORER

Language Translations for "AMBROSIA BORER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Dutch

  

ambrosiakever (ambrosia beetle, flagworm, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer, spot worm, spruce ambrosia beetle, striped ambrosia beetle), houtbroeder (ambrosia beetle, flagworm, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer, spot worm). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

tikaskuoriainen (ambrosia beetle, flagworm, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer, spot worm). (various references)

   

French

  

scolyte du bois (ambrosia beetle), scolyte ambrosia (ambrosia beetle). (various references)

   

German

  

Ambrosiakäfer (ambrosia beetle, flagworm, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer, spot worm), Borkenkäfer-Gattung (ambrosia beetle, flagworm, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer, spot worm). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ξυλέβορος (ambrosia beetle, flagworm, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer, spot worm), Σκολύτης (ambrosia beetle, bark beetle, flagworm, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer, spot worm). (various references)

   

Italian

  

xileboro (ambrosia beetle, flagworm, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer, spot worm). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ambrosiaay orerbay

   

Portuguese

  

escolitídeos (ambrosia beetle, flagworm, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer, spot worm). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

perforador de ramas (ambrosia beetle, flagworm, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer, spot worm), coleópteros de ambrosia (ambrosia beetle, flagworm, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer, spot worm). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

vedborre (ambrosia beetle, flagworm, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer, spot worm), varvsfluga (ambrosia beetle, flagworm, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer, spot worm), trägnagare (ambrosia beetle, flagworm, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer, spot worm), cylinderbagge (ambrosia beetle, flagworm, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer, spot worm). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: AMBROSIA BORER

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Xyleborus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: AMBROSIA BORER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-b-e-i-m-o-o-r-r-r-s"

-4 letters: barbarism.

-5 letters: absorber, ambaries, ambrosia, armoires, armorers, armories, barriers, barrooms, biramose, broomier, marriers, reabsorb, ribosome, sombrero.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Translations: Ancient
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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