Usually means: Insect, resembles wasp, plant pest.
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  1. sawfly: Merriam-Webster
  2. sawfly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sawfly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sawfly: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sawfly: Vocabulary.com
  6. sawfly: Wordnik
  7. sawfly: Wiktionary
  8. sawfly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. sawfly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. sawfly: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. sawfly: Dictionary.com
  12. Sawfly: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Sawfly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. sawfly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. sawfly: Rhymezone
  16. Sawfly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. sawfly: FreeDictionary.org
  18. sawfly: Mnemonic Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (sawfly)

▸ noun:  Any of various flying insects of the suborder Symphyta, within the order Hymenoptera, whose ovipositor is long and often serrated and is used to cut into plants to lay eggs.

Similar:
leaf wasp, syrphid, woodwasp, syrphian, syrphus, hoverfly, blowfly, syrphus fly, syrphine, snakefly, more...

Types:
pine sawfly, spruce sawfly, birch sawfly, willow sawfly, elm sawfly, more...

Phrases:
pine sawfly, larch sawfly, spruce sawfly, stem sawfly, apple sawfly, more...

Adjectives:
european, pine, galling, female, larch, black, headed, small, currant, spinning, gooseberry

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Similar:
leaf wasp, syrphid, woodwasp, syrphian, syrphus, hoverfly, blowfly, syrphus fly, syrphine, snakefly, more...

Types:
pine sawfly, spruce sawfly, birch sawfly, willow sawfly, elm sawfly, more...

Phrases:
pine sawfly, larch sawfly, spruce sawfly, stem sawfly, apple sawfly, pear sawfly, wheat sawfly, elm sawfly, strawberry sawfly, vine sawfly, european spruce sawfly, raspberry sawfly, rose sawfly, turnip sawfly, more...

Adjectives:
european, pine, galling, female, larch, black, headed, small, currant, spinning, gooseberry



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