"sawfly" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: sawflies [plural]
Etymology: saw + fly Etymology templates: {{compound|en|saw|fly}} saw + fly Head templates: {{en-noun}} sawfly (plural sawflies)
  1. Any of various flying insects of the suborder Symphyta whose ovipositor is long and often serrated and is used to cut into plants to lay eggs. Wikipedia link: sawfly Categories (lifeform): Sawflies and wood wasps Derived forms: elm sawfly, rose sawfly, turnip sawfly, wheat sawfly Translations (insect of the suborder Symphyta): листна оса (listna osa) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 叶蜂 (yèfēng) (Chinese Mandarin), sahapistiäinen (Finnish), mouche à scie [feminine] (French), 잎벌 (ipbeol) (Korean), tsísʼnáłtsooí oozhníítání (Navajo), rośliniarka [feminine] (Polish), пили́льщик (pilílʹščik) [masculine] (Russian), växtstekel [common-gender] (Swedish)

Inflected forms

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