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buprestid
[ byoo-pres-tid ]
noun
- any beetle of the family Buprestidae, comprising wood-boring beetles of a metallic luster.
buprestid
/ bjuːˈprɛstɪd /
noun
- any beetle of the mainly tropical family Buprestidae , the adults of which are brilliantly coloured and the larvae of which bore into and cause damage to trees, roots, etc
adjective
- of, relating to, or belonging to the family Buprestidae
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Word History and Origins
Origin of buprestid1
1350–1400; Middle English < New Latin Buprestidae name of the family, equivalent to Latin būprēst ( is ) venomous beetle (< Greek boúprēstis, literally ox-sweller) + -idae -id 2
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Word History and Origins
Origin of buprestid1
C19: from Latin buprestis poisonous beetle, causing the cattle who eat it to swell up, from Greek, from bous ox + prēthein to swell up
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Example Sentences
Laporte de Castelnau and Gory have described and made drawings of about 1,300 species of Buprestid.
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The tribe of weevils is even much more numerous than that of the Elaterid and the Buprestid.
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