false jewel beetle
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.28 in modern English
31
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any beetle of the family Schizopodidae, which resemble and are closely related to jewel beetles (buprestids).
Example Sentences
- "Schizopodid beetles or false jewel beetles are similar to metallic wood-boring beetles or jewel beetles (Buprestidae) but are distinguished by the deeply bilobed fourth tarsal segment of the adults."
- "Schizopodidae, called "false jewel beetles", are a small group of beetles endemic to the western North America."
- "Commonly called false jewel beetles because the adults resemble jewel or metallic wood-boring beetles (Buprestidae, p.210), they^([schizopodids]) are distinguished by their deeply bilobed fourth tarsomere. Schizopodids are typically found feeding on spring-blooming desert flowers, clinging to dry grasses (Schizopus) or on foliage of oaks (Dystaxia) and junipers (Glyptoscelimorpha)."