scolytoid

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Scolytus +‎ -oid

Adjective[edit]

scolytoid (not comparable)

  1. (zoology) Resembling or characteristic of the bark-beetle genus Scolytus.

Noun[edit]

scolytoid (plural scolytoids)

  1. (zoology) A beetle of the bark-beetle genus Scolytus.
    • 1961, Arthur Ramon Penfold, J. L. Willis, The Eucalypts: Botany, Cultivation, Chemistry, and Utilization, page 166:
      When suitable conditions for the cultivation of ambrosial fungi appear, the better-known 'pin-hole' borers (scolytoids) tunnel the wood.
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