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FAMILY IPIDAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does family Ipidae mean?
• FAMILY IPIDAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY IPIDAE has 1 sense:
1. large family of bark-boring or wood-boring short-beaked beetles; very destructive to forest and fruit trees
Familiarity information: FAMILY IPIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large family of bark-boring or wood-boring short-beaked beetles; very destructive to forest and fruit trees
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
family Ipidae; family Scolytidae; Ipidae; Scolytidae
Hypernyms ("family Ipidae" is a kind of...):
arthropod family (any of the arthropods)
Meronyms (members of "family Ipidae"):
genus Scolytus; Scolytus (type genus of the Scolytidae comprising numerous small bark beetles)
Dendroctonus; genus Dendroctonus (genus of small bark beetles destructive especially to mature conifers)
bark beetle (small beetle that bores tunnels in the bark and wood of trees; related to weevils)
Holonyms ("family Ipidae" is a member of...):
Coleoptera; order Coleoptera (beetles)
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