TENEBRIONID
Dictionary entry overview: What does tenebrionid mean? • TENEBRIONID (noun)
The noun TENEBRIONID has 1 sense:
1. sluggish hard-bodied black terrestrial weevil whose larvae feed on e.g. decaying plant material or grain
Familiarity information: TENEBRIONID used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• TENEBRIONID (noun)
Meaning:
Sluggish hard-bodied black terrestrial weevil whose larvae feed on e.g. decaying plant material or grain
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
darkling beetle; darkling groung beetle; tenebrionid
Hypernyms ("tenebrionid" is a kind of...):
weevil (any of several families of mostly small beetles that feed on plants and plant products; especially snout beetles and seed beetles)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tenebrionid"):
flour beetle; flour weevil (infests flour and stored grains)
Holonyms ("tenebrionid" is a member of...):
family Tenebrionidae; Tenebrionidae (a family of arthropods including darkling beetles and mealworms)
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