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peach tree borer
noun
Definition of PEACH TREE BORER
: a blue-black clearwing moth (Synanthedon exitiosa syn. Sanninoidea exitiosa) with the female having an orange band on the abdomen and whose white brown-headed larva bores in the wood of stone fruit trees (as the peach)
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First Known Use of PEACH TREE BORER
1850
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