sawflies

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A form of sawfly — 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.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of sawfly
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