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tenebrionid — noun Etymology: New Latin Tenebrionidae, from Tenebrion , Tenebrio, type genus, from Latin, one that shuns the light, from tenebrae darkness more at temerity Date: 1902 darkling beetle • tenebrionid adjective … New Collegiate Dictionary
tenebrionid — te·neb·ri·o·nid … English syllables
tenebrionid — te•neb•ri•o•nid [[t]təˈnɛb ri ə nɪd[/t]] n. ent darkling beetle • Etymology: 1900–05; < Tenebrion , s. of Tenebrio a genus (L tenebriō one who operates in the dark, der. oftenebraedarkness) + idae id II … From formal English to slang
tenebrionid — noun sluggish hard bodied black terrestrial weevil whose larvae feed on e.g. decaying plant material or grain • Syn: ↑darkling beetle, ↑darkling groung beetle • Hypernyms: ↑weevil • Hyponyms: ↑flour beetle, ↑flour weevil … Useful english dictionary
darkling beetle — noun Date: 1816 any of a family (Tenebrionidae) of firm bodied mostly dark colored vegetable feeding nocturnal beetles which often have vestigial and functionless wings and whose larvae are usually hard cylindrical worms (as a mealworm) called… … New Collegiate Dictionary
Northern Bald Ibis — Adult Conservation status … Wikipedia
Click beetle — Click beetles Click beetle adults and larvae (wireworms) Left: Wheat Wireworm (Agriotes mancus) Right: Sand Wireworm (Horistonotus uhlerii) Scientific classification Kingdom … Wikipedia
List of extinct animals of the British Isles — This is a list of extinct animals of the British Isles. Only a small number of these are globally extinct, most famously the Irish Elk, Great Auk and Woolly Mammoth. Most of the remainder survive to some extent outside the British Isles. The list … Wikipedia
Black-winged Lapwing — in Debre Berhan, Ethiopia Conservation status … Wikipedia
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