elm beetle

elm beetle (plural elm beetles)

1. Any of various species of beetles (especially Xanthogaleruca luteola) which feed on the leaves of the elm.

• (Xanthogaleruca luteola): elm-leaf beetle

• “elm”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.