shothole
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of shothole
Example Sentences
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Invasive shothole borer and gold-spotted oak borer beetles have killed thousands of trees in Southern California.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2022
Invasive shothole borers have sickened at least 65 varieties of SoCal urban trees — such as box elders, maples, willows, sycamores, oaks and cottonwoods — by infesting them with their primary food source, fusarium fungus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2022
The names of these tree-destroying beetles are ominous enough — goldspotted oak borer and invasive shothole borer — but the real nightmare is what they’re doing to our urban trees.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2022
The online class from 12:30-2:15 p.m. will cover identification of blossom brown rot, bacterial canker, cherry mottle leaf, shothole, cherry bark tortrix and tent caterpillar.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2021
The clear water came gushing up the hatchways from many a shothole; the craft was settling fast, and so we hauled down the ensign and made the signal of distress.
From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II by Charles James Lever
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