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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to the Meloidæ, or having their characters.
  • noun Any member of the family Meloidæ.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zool.) A beetle belongoing to the family Meloidae.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun zoology Any member of the Meloidae.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun beetle that produces a secretion that blisters the skin

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From New Latin Meloidae, family name, from Meloē, type genus.]

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