scolytoid

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adjective

Resembling or characteristic of the bark-beetle genus Scolytus.

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Meanings

adjectivescolytoid (not comparable)
  1. not comparablebiologyResembling or characteristic of the bark-beetle genus Scolytus.
nounscolytoid (plural scolytoids)

plural scolytoids

  1. biologyA beetle of the bark-beetle genus Scolytus.

    When suitable conditions for the cultivation of ambrosial fungi appear, the better-known 'pin-hole' borers (scolytoids) tunnel the wood.

    1961, Arthur Ramon Penfold, J. L. Willis, The Eucalypts: Botany, Cultivation, Chemistry, and Utilization, page 166

Origin

Scolytus + -oid

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