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Meanings of sawyer beetle in English

Any of several beetles whose larvae bore holes in dead or dying trees especially conifers.

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        Examples for "sawyer"
        Examples for "sawyer"
        1
        Their heroic names were J. Crooke, sawyer; R. Miles, alias Plummer, sheerman; A.
        Fox's Book of Martyrs / Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, a...
        2
        The wood-sawyer said he would be proud and flattered to attend the citizeness.
        A Tale of Two Cities
        3
        He's been a sawyer for Townsend for nigh on ten years.
        Serena
        4
        We want new leadership, Alderman Roderick Sawyer said at a news conference.
        Reuters
        5
        Sawyer actually recoiled, which was exactly what she wanted him to do.
        The girl who chased the moon: a novel