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Tribolium

noun

flour beetles

• Syn: ↑genus Tribolium

• Hypernyms: ↑arthropod genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Tenebrionidae, ↑family Tenebrionidae

• Member Meronyms: ↑flour beetle, ↑flour weevil

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\\trīˈbōlēəm\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Greek tribolos, any of various prickly plants + New Latin -ium — more at tribulus

: a genus of small brown beetles (family Tenebrionidae) whose larvae feed on dry cereal products — see flour beetle

Useful english dictionary. 2012.