ambrosia beetle
ambrosia beetle · ambrosia beetles
Any of those species of true weevils that live in nutritional symbiosis with ambrosia…Any of those species of true weevils (family Curculionidae) that live in nutritional symbiosis with ambrosia fungi, including almost all of the species of the subfamily Platypodinae and some of the species of bark beetles in Scolytinae.
Meaning
1 sensesAny of those species of true weevils (family Curculionidae) that live in nutritional symbiosis with ambrosia fungi, including almost all of the species of the subfamily Platypodinae and some of the species of bark beetles in Scolytinae.
Forms
plural: ambrosia beetles| Singular | ambrosia beetle |
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| Plural | ambrosia beetles |
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