Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A member of the coleopterous family Scolytidæ.
- Having the characters of or belonging to the family Scolytidæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of small bark-boring beetles of the genus Scolytus and allied genera. Also used adjectively.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology Any of numerous
species of smallbark -boring beetles of Scolytus and alliedgenera .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek to cut short.
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