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n. - Bee that severs rounded portions from limb growths and flowers to line its nest.

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Usage examples (38)
  • The 15 trees connected by vines had no leaf-cutter ant damage.
  • Its leaves are sprinkled on leaf-cutter ant hills to eliminate them.
  • Tom Post had trouble establishing neem trees in Belize because of leaf-cutter ant damage.
  • Rabbits, leaf-cutter ants (its only serious insect pest here) and iguanas are other pests.
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