apple borerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

apple borer (plural apple borers)

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