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Definition of: buprestid

(byoomacr·prestid) noun
Any of a family (Buprestidae) of brilliantly colored beetles with the first and second vertical segments confluent and membranous-lobed tarsi, and whose larvae are destructive woodborers. [<L buprestis <Gk. bouprēstis <bous ox + prēthein swell]

Most often used phrases:

buprestid beetle
australian buprestid
buprestid fauna

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