gnawing

An American longicorn beetle (Oncideres cingulatus) which lays its eggs in the twigs of the hickory, and then girdles each branch by gnawing a groove around it, thus killing it to provide suitable food for the larvae.

n relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing

a tooth for cutting or gnawing

relative large gnawing animals

distinguished from rodents by having two pairs of upper incisors specialized for gnawing