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”