Crossword-Solution: SAWFLY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sawfly | n. | Any one of numerous species of hymenopterous insects belonging to the family Tenthredinidae. 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 larvae resemble those of Lepidoptera. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “SAWFLY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Insect named for its serrated egg-laying organ | 1 answer |
| Insect that cuts into plant tissue to deposit eggs | 1 answer |
| Relative of the wasp | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AEAR
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with SAWFLY (5)
She is at once recognized as a stranger and attacked and slaughtered with the same vigor as the larvae of the Hylotoma sawfly and the Saperda beetle, neither of which bears any outward resemblance to the larva of the wasps.
There must have been a warning given once: No tree, on pain of withering and sawfly, To reach the slimmest of his snaky toes Into this mounded sward and rumple it; All trees stand back: taboo is on this soil.-- The trees have always scrupulously obeyed.
Enemies: The larch is subject to the attacks of a _sawfly_, which has killed many trees of the American species.
The Leaf-rolling Sawfly, whose larvæ roll the rose-leaves like paper spills, has become a serious pest among garden roses of late years, and if these rolls are carefully unfolded the little green maggot will be found in one of them.
Sawfly larvae can at once be recognized by the curious positions they assume, and by the number of pro-legs, which exceeds ten.
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Appears in: Chronicle, NYT, Universal.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1996–2013).