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FLOUR BEETLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An insect that infests flour and stored grains
Synonyms:
flour beetle; flour weevil
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("flour beetle" is a kind of...):
darkling beetle; darkling groung beetle; tenebrionid (sluggish hard-bodied black terrestrial weevil whose larvae feed on e.g. decaying plant material or grain)
Holonyms ("flour beetle" is a member of...):
genus Tribolium; Tribolium (flour beetles)
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