tenebrionoid
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any beetle of the superfamily Tenebrionoidea.
Example Sentences
- "2002, John D. Pinto, Marco A. Bologna, 111. Meloidae Gyllenhal, Ross H. Arnett, Jr, Michael C. Thomas, Paul E. Skelley, J. Howard Frank (editors), American Beetles, Volume 2: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea, page 523, Larvae of Eleticinae apparently have typical holometabolic development and are the most similar to those of other tenebrionoids."
- "Exactly two hundred species of tenebrionoid are currently recognised from the British Isles."
- "Tergal and pleural armature, which is absent or modest in most cucujoids and tenebrionoids, becomes exaggerated in some predators (e.g., Stethoris, Coccinellidae; Fig. 36), surface feeding herbivores (e.g., the coccinellid genus Epilachna; Fig. 37), and fungus feeders (e.g., the erotylid genus Aegithus), to form various structures such as setose, tuberculate verrucae, and complexly branched scoli."