white pine weevil

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• white-pine weevil — /hwuyt puyn , wuyt / a brown beetle, Pissodes strobi, the larvae of which feed on the terminal buds and shoots of white pine and other conifers. * * * white pine weevil «HWYT PYN», a kind of weevil whose larvae feed on the new stems of the white… …   Useful english dictionary

• white pine weevil — noun : a small elongated brownish weevil (Pissodes strobi) that feeds in and destroys the new shoots of white pine and Norway spruce and sometimes of other pines and spruces …   Useful english dictionary

• white-pine weevil — /hwuyt puyn , wuyt / a brown beetle, Pissodes strobi, the larvae of which feed on the terminal buds and shoots of white pine and other conifers. * * * …   Universalium

• pine weevil — ▪ insect       any wood boring beetle of the insect family Curculionidae (order Coleoptera). Their most unusual physical characteristic is an elongated beak, or snout.       The white pine weevil (Pissodes strobi) of North America kills the… …   Universalium

• Pine weevil — Pine Pine, n. [AS. p[=i]n, L. pinus.] 1. (Bot.) Any tree of the coniferous genus {Pinus}. See {Pinus}. [1913 Webster] Note: There are about twenty eight species in the United States, of which the {white pine} ({Pinus Strobus}), the {Georgia pine} …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• white pine — Pine Pine, n. [AS. p[=i]n, L. pinus.] 1. (Bot.) Any tree of the coniferous genus {Pinus}. See {Pinus}. [1913 Webster] Note: There are about twenty eight species in the United States, of which the {white pine} ({Pinus Strobus}), the {Georgia pine} …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Eastern White Pine — Taxobox name = Eastern White Pine status = LR/lc | status system = IUCN2.3 image width = 240px image caption = Group of trees regnum = Plantae phylum = Pinophyta classis = Pinopsida ordo = Pinales familia = Pinaceae genus = Pinus subgenus =… …   Wikipedia

• Pine — Pine, n. [AS. p[=i]n, L. pinus.] 1. (Bot.) Any tree of the coniferous genus {Pinus}. See {Pinus}. [1913 Webster] Note: There are about twenty eight species in the United States, of which the {white pine} ({Pinus Strobus}), the {Georgia pine}… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Pine barren — Pine Pine, n. [AS. p[=i]n, L. pinus.] 1. (Bot.) Any tree of the coniferous genus {Pinus}. See {Pinus}. [1913 Webster] Note: There are about twenty eight species in the United States, of which the {white pine} ({Pinus Strobus}), the {Georgia pine} …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Pine borer — Pine Pine, n. [AS. p[=i]n, L. pinus.] 1. (Bot.) Any tree of the coniferous genus {Pinus}. See {Pinus}. [1913 Webster] Note: There are about twenty eight species in the United States, of which the {white pine} ({Pinus Strobus}), the {Georgia pine} …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Pine finch — Pine Pine, n. [AS. p[=i]n, L. pinus.] 1. (Bot.) Any tree of the coniferous genus {Pinus}. See {Pinus}. [1913 Webster] Note: There are about twenty eight species in the United States, of which the {white pine} ({Pinus Strobus}), the {Georgia pine} …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English