bark beetle vs Dendroctonus rufipennis

bark beetle and Dendroctonus rufipennis both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
bark beetle	Yes	No	No	No
Dendroctonus rufipennis	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Dendroctonus rufipennis is a hyponym of bark beetle; that is, Dendroctonus rufipennis is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than bark beetle:

bark beetle: small beetle that bores tunnels in the bark and wood of trees; related to weevils
Dendroctonus rufipennis: small beetle that likes to bore through the bark of spruce trees and eat the cambium which eventually kills the tree

Other hyponyms of bark beetle include Dutch-elm beetle, Scolytus multistriatus, spruce bark beetle.

bark beetle (noun)	Dendroctonus rufipennis (noun)
small beetle that bores tunnels in the bark and wood of trees; related to weevils	small beetle that likes to bore through the bark of spruce trees and eat the cambium which eventually kills the tree

bark beetle vs Dendroctonus rufipennis

bark beetle and Dendroctonus rufipennis both are nouns.

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