emerald ash borer
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.49 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Agrilus planipennis, a green beetle native to Asia and a significant pest of ash trees in Europe and North America.
Example Sentences
- "The emerald ash borer, Agrilus planipennis Fairmair (formerly A. marcopoli Obenberger), is native to China, Japan, Korea, and Mongolia."
- "Already, the Emerald ash borer has killed over 1,000 ash trees in five countries around Detroit, Michigan."
- "Then there was the emerald ash borer, an insect that–as a recent editorial in the Washington Post put it–"could do to Eastern ash trees what an Asian blight did to chestnuts in the first half of the last century–wipe them out.""