Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mountain pine beetle

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.40 in modern English

Syllables: moun-tain pine bee-tle
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any member of the species Dendroctonus ponderosae of bark beetles native to the forests of western North America.

Inflected Forms

mountain pine beetles (plural)

Questions

What does mountain pine beetle mean?: Any member of the species Dendroctonus ponderosae of bark beetles native to the forests of western North America.

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