ambrosia beetles

A form of ambrosia beetle — Any of those species of true weevils (family Curculionidae) that live in nutritional symbiosis with ambrosia fungi, including almost all of the species of the subfamily Platypodinae and some of the species of bark beetles in Scolytinae.

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noun
  1. pluralplural of ambrosia beetle
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