peach borer

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• peach borer — noun 1. : peach tree borer 2. : the larva of a large beetle (Dicerca divaricata) of the family Buprestidae which bores especially in the peach, cherry, and maple …   Useful english dictionary

• western peach borer — noun : a borer that attacks peach and other stone fruit trees in western No. America and is considered a variety (graefi) of the eastern peach tree borer …   Useful english dictionary

• peach tree borer — noun : any of several moth larvae that are destructive to peach trees, boring in the wood usually near ground level; especially : a white brown headed grub that is the larva of a blue black orange marked clearwing moth (Sanninoidea exitiosa) and… …   Useful english dictionary

• Peach-tree borer — Peach Peach (p[=e]ch), n. [OE. peche, peshe, OF. pesche, F. p[^e]che, fr. LL. persia, L. Persicum (sc. malum) a Persian apple, a peach. Cf. {Persian}, and {Parsee}.] (Bot.) A well known high flavored juicy fruit, containing one or two seeds in a… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Peach — (p[=e]ch), n. [OE. peche, peshe, OF. pesche, F. p[^e]che, fr. LL. persia, L. Persicum (sc. malum) a Persian apple, a peach. Cf. {Persian}, and {Parsee}.] (Bot.) A well known high flavored juicy fruit, containing one or two seeds in a hard almond… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Peach color — Peach Peach (p[=e]ch), n. [OE. peche, peshe, OF. pesche, F. p[^e]che, fr. LL. persia, L. Persicum (sc. malum) a Persian apple, a peach. Cf. {Persian}, and {Parsee}.] (Bot.) A well known high flavored juicy fruit, containing one or two seeds in a… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Borer — Bor er, n. 1. One that bores; an instrument for boring. [1913 Webster] 2. (Zo[ o]l.) (a) A marine, bivalve mollusk, of the genus {Teredo} and allies, which burrows in wood. See {Teredo}. (b) Any bivalve mollusk ({Saxicava}, {Lithodomus}, etc.)… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• peach twig borer — noun : the larva of a small gelechiid moth (Anarsia lineatella) that bores into the smaller twigs of the peach and other fruit trees * * * peach twig borer, a moth larva that bores into the trunk and branches of peach trees …   Useful english dictionary

• peach-bark borer — noun : peach tree borer …   Useful english dictionary

• peach tree borer — noun Date: 1850 a blue black clearwing moth (Synanthedon exitiosa syn. Sanninoidea exitiosa) with the female having an orange band on the abdomen and whose white brown headed larva bores in the wood of stone fruit trees (as the peach) …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• peach tree borer — the larva of any of several clearwing moths, as Sanninoidea exitiosa, that bore into the wood of the peach and other drupaceous trees. [1840 50, Amer.] * * * …   Universalium