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mountain pine beetle

mountain pine beetle noun: any member of the species Dendroctonus ponderosae of bark beetles native to the forests of western North America.

Noun

mountain pine beetle (plural mountain pine beetles)

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

Forms of mountain pine beetle

pluralmountain pine beetles

Questions about mountain pine beetle

What does mountain pine beetle mean?
Mountain pine beetle means any member of the species Dendroctonus ponderosae of bark beetles native to the forests of western North America.
What part of speech is mountain pine beetle?
Mountain pine beetle is a noun.
What is the plural of mountain pine beetle?
The plural of mountain pine beetle is mountain pine beetles.

Words near mountain pine beetle in the dictionary

  1. mountain pecker
  2. mountain peckers
  3. mountain phlox
  4. mountain phloxes
  5. mountain pine
  6. mountain pine beetle
  7. mountain pine beetles
  8. mountain pines
  9. mountain plover
  10. mountain plum
  11. mountain plums

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