Meaning

1 senses
  1. Any member of family Tenebrionidae of darkling beetles.

More definitions
  • sluggish hard-bodied black terrestrial weevil whose larvae feed on e.g. decaying plant material or grain

Origin

Borrowed from translingual Tenebrionidae.

Borrowed from translingual Tenebrionidae.

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Forms

plural: tenebrionids
Singulartenebrionid
Pluraltenebrionids

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • sluggish hard-bodied black terrestrial weevil whose larvae feed on e.g. decaying plant material or grain:darkling beetledarkling groung beetle

See also

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