bark beetle vs spruce bark beetle

bark beetle and spruce bark beetle both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
bark beetle	Yes	No	No	No
spruce bark beetle	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, spruce bark beetle is a hyponym of bark beetle; that is, spruce bark beetle 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
spruce bark beetle: 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, Dendroctonus rufipennis.

bark beetle (noun)	spruce bark beetle (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 spruce bark beetle

bark beetle and spruce bark beetle both are nouns.

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