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girdler definition

gir·dler (gʉrd′lər)

noun

  1. a person who makes girdles
  2. a person or thing that girdles, or encircles
  3. ☆ any insect that cuts girdles in trees, esp. an American beetle (Oncideres cingulata) that lays its eggs in holes bored into twigs

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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