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TENEBRIONID

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Sluggish hard-bodied black terrestrial weevil whose larvae feed on e.g. decaying plant material or grain

Synonyms:

darkling beetle; darkling groung beetle; tenebrionid

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Nouns denoting animals

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 (an insect that 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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