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stemborer

stemborer is the alternative form of stem borer.

Meaning of stem borer

Noun

stem borer (plural stem borers)

  1. Any insect larva, or arthropod, that bores into plant stems.
    • The Manitoba maple was subject to a stem-borer which destroyed its growing tips, and in any case it had a diffuse, shrubby growth which never concentrated naturally into a single trunk.1972, James M. Minifie, Homesteader, A Prairie Boyhood Recalled, page 121

Forms of stemborer

pluralstemborers

Questions about stemborer

What is stemborer the alternative form of?
Stemborer is the alternative form of stem borer.

Words near stemborer in the dictionary

  1. stemarene
  2. stembark
  3. stembarks
  4. stembok
  5. stemboks
  6. stemborer
  7. stemborers
  8. Stembridge
  9. Stembridges
  10. stembuck
  11. stembucks

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