spruce bark beetle
NOUN
18 LETTERS · STARTS WITH S
spruce bark beetle is a valid 18-letter word worth 28 points in Scrabble and 34 points in Words with Friends.
SCRABBLE
WORDS WITH FRIENDS
S1P3R1U1C3E1B3A1R1K5B3E1E1T1L1E1
1 + 3 + 1 + 1 + 3 + 1 + 0 + 3 + 1 + 1 + 5 + 0 + 3 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 =28 PTS
DOUBLE WORD → 56TRIPLE WORD → 84
MEANING
What does spruce bark beetle mean?
NOUN · 1 SENSE
1
Small beetle that likes to bore through the bark of spruce trees and eat the cambium which eventually kills the tree.
“the spruce bark beetle is the major tree-killing insect pest of Alaska spruce forests”
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