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wheat sawfly

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.78 in modern English

Syllables
wheat -sawfly
IPA
26
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A small European sawfly (Cephus pygmeus) whose larvae damage wheat by boring in the stalks.

noun

Any of several small American sawflies of the genus Dolerus, whose larvae damage the stems or heads of wheat.

noun

Pachynematus extensicornis, whose larvae feed chiefly on the blades of wheat.

Inflected Forms

wheat sawflies (plural)

Synonyms

wheat stem fly wheat stem sawfly grass sawfly

Questions

What does wheat sawfly mean?
A small European sawfly (Cephus pygmeus) whose larvae damage wheat by boring in the stalks.

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