noun
large family of bark-boring or wood-boring short-beaked beetles; very destructive to forest and fruit trees
• Syn: ↑Scolytidae, ↑family Scolytidae, ↑Ipidae
• Hypernyms: ↑arthropod family
• Member Holonyms: ↑Coleoptera, ↑order Coleoptera
• Member Meronyms: ↑Scolytus, ↑genus Scolytus, ↑Dendroctonus, ↑genus Dendroctonus, ↑bark beetle
Useful english dictionary. 2012.