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| Domain | Definition |
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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| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ambrosia beetle | 11 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "AMBROSIA BEETLE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | stribet vedborer (spruce ambrosia beetle, striped ambrosia beetle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ambrosiakever (ambrosia borer, flagworm, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer, spot worm, spruce ambrosia beetle, striped ambrosia beetle), houtbroeder (ambrosia borer, flagworm, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer, spot worm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tikaskuoriainen (ambrosia borer, flagworm, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer, spot worm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | scolyte du bois (ambrosia borer), scolyte ambrosia (ambrosia borer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Ambrosiakäfer (ambrosia borer, flagworm, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer, spot worm), Borkenkäfer-Gattung (ambrosia borer, flagworm, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer, spot worm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ξυλέβορος (ambrosia borer, flagworm, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer, spot worm), Σκολύτης (ambrosia borer, bark beetle, flagworm, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer, spot worm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | xileboro (ambrosia borer, flagworm, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer, spot worm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ambrosiaay eetlebay escolitídeos (ambrosia borer, flagworm, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer, spot worm). (various references) perforador de ramas (ambrosia borer, flagworm, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer, spot worm), coleópteros de ambrosia (ambrosia borer, flagworm, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer, spot worm). (various references) vedborre (ambrosia borer, flagworm, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer, spot worm), varvsfluga (ambrosia borer, flagworm, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer, spot worm), trägnagare (ambrosia borer, flagworm, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer, spot worm), cylinderbagge (ambrosia borer, flagworm, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer, spot worm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Xyleborus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-b-e-e-e-i-l-m-o-r-s-t" | |
-3 letters: ameliorates. | |
-4 letters: ameliorate, blastomere, brambliest, elaborates, meliorates, sailboater. | |
-5 letters: aerolites, ambrosial, ameerates, amitroles, astrolabe, barbitals, bareboats, beastlier, bleariest, elaborate, elastomer, estimable, laborites, liberates, limberest, marbleise, marbliest, materials, materiels, meliorate, miserable, misrelate, osmeteria, rolamites, salometer, steerable, strobilae, telomeres, temblores. | |
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| 1. Expressions: Internet 2. Translations: Modern 3. Translations: Ancient 4. Anagrams | 5. Bibliography |
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