sawfly : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: sawfly	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for sawfly
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sawfly n insect whose female has a saw-like ovipositor for inserting eggs into the leaf or stem tissue of a host plant
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sawfly \Saw"fly`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of hymenopterous insects belonging to the family {Tenthredinid[91]}. The female usually has an ovipositor containing a pair of sawlike organs with which she makes incisions in the leaves or stems of plants in which to lay the eggs. The larv[91] resemble those of Lepidoptera.