Term: birch leaf miner: small black sawfly native to Europe but established in eastern United States; larvae mine the leaves of birches causing serious defoliation
Candidate hypernym: sawfly: insect whose female has a saw-like ovipositor for inserting eggs into the leaf or stem tissue of a host plant → 1
Candidate hypernym: heterology: (biology) the lack of correspondence of apparently similar body parts → 0
Candidate hypernym: eburnation: a change that occurs in degenerative joint disease in which bone is converted into a dense smooth substance resembling ivory → 0
Candidate hypernym: converging lens: lens such that a beam of light passing through it is brought to a point or focus → 0
Candidate hypernym: randomization: a deliberately haphazard arrangement of observations so as to simulate chance → 0
Candidate hypernym: tanga: 100 tanga equal 1 Tajikistani ruble → 0
Candidate hypernym: cockspur: small spiny West Indian tree → 0
Candidate hypernym: flood: the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land → 0
Candidate hypernym: pioneer: one the first colonists or settlers in a new territory → 0
Candidate hypernym: lancetfish: large elongate scaleless oceanic fishes with sharp teeth and a long dorsal fin that resembles a sail → 0
Candidate hypernym: astrakhan: the fur of young lambs → 0