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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 treesplay

  Familiarity information: FAMILY IPIDAE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FAMILY IPIDAE (noun)


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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