Definitions for buprestid

buprestid bu·pres·tid

Spelling: [byoo-pres-tid]
IPA: /byuˈprɛs tɪd/

Buprestid is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 614 anagrams from letters in buprestid (bdeiprstu).

Definitions for buprestid

noun

  1. any beetle of the family Buprestidae, comprising wood-boring beetles of a metallic luster.

Origin of buprestid

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

Examples for buprestid

Laporte de Castelnau and Gory have described and made drawings of about 1,300 species of buprestid.

The tribe of weevils is even much more numerous than that of the Elaterid and the buprestid.

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