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TENEBRIONIDAE

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Meaning:

A family of arthropods including darkling beetles and mealworms

Synonyms:

family Tenebrionidae; Tenebrionidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Tenebrionidae" is a kind of...):

arthropod family (any of the arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "Tenebrionidae"):

darkling beetle; darkling groung beetle; tenebrionid (sluggish hard-bodied black terrestrial weevil whose larvae feed on e.g. decaying plant material or grain)

mealworm (the larva of beetles of the family Tenebrionidae)

genus Tribolium; Tribolium (flour beetles)

Holonyms ("Tenebrionidae" is a member of...):

Coleoptera; order Coleoptera (beetles)

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