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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun sawfly has 1 sense
- sawfly(n = noun.animal) - insect whose female has a saw-like ovipositor for inserting eggs into the leaf or stem tissue of a host plant; is a kind of hymenopter, hymenopteran, hymenopteron, hymenopterous insect
is a member of family tenthredinidae, tenthredinidae
has particulars: birch leaf miner, fenusa pusilla
CIDE DICTIONARY
sawfly, n.
Any one of numerous species of hymenopterous insects belonging to the family Tenthredinidæ . The female usually has an ovipositor containing a pair of sawlike organs with which she makes incisions in the leaves or stems of plants in which to lay the eggs. The larvæ resemble those of Lepidoptera. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
sawfly, n. (pl. -flies) any insect of the superfamily Tenthredinidae, with a serrated ovipositor, the larvae of which are injurious to plants.
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