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Definition of: buprestid
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·pres′tid) 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]
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