powder-post beetle

noun

Any of a group of seventy species of woodboring beetles classified in the insect subfamily Lyctinae.

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nounpowder-post beetle (plural powder-post beetles)

plural powder-post beetles · alternative powderpost beetle

  1. Any of a group of seventy species of woodboring beetles classified in the insect subfamily Lyctinae.
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