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| bu·pres·tid [ byoo préstid ] (plural bu·pres·tids) |
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tropical wood-boring beetle: a metallic-colored beetle that bores into wood during the larval stage. Native to: tropics. Family Buprestidae.
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| [Mid-19th century. < modern Latin Buprestidae (plural) < Greek bouprēstis "ox-sweller" < bous "ox"] |
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