sawfly

About 0.07 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Any of various flying insects of the suborder Symphyta, within the order Hymenoptera, whose ovipositor is long and often serrated and is used to cut into plants to lay eggs.

Similar words

galling leaf wasp syrphid woodwasp syrphian syrphus hoverfly blowfly syrphus fly syrphine

Often followed by

larvae in and larva species is neodiprion populations population

Word family

sawflies