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sawfly

saw·fly [ sáw fl ] (plural saw·flies)


noun 
Definition:
 
insect with notched egg-laying organ: an insect in which the female has a prominent, often serrated appendage at the tip of its abdomen, for boring holes and laying eggs in wood and plants. Family Tenthredinidae.

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