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yellow-crescent blister beetle

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.80 in modern English

Syllables
yel-low-cres-cen-t b-lis-ter bee-tle
IPA
41
Scrabble Score
27
Letters
8
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Pyrota insulata, a species of black and orange blister beetle found in the United States and Mexico.

Etymology

From yellow + crescent + blister beetle (“beetle in the family Meloidae”), after their elytral patterns.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

yellow-crescent blister beetles (plural)

Questions

What does yellow-crescent blister beetle mean?
Pyrota insulata, a species of black and orange blister beetle found in the United States and Mexico.
Where does yellow-crescent blister beetle come from?
From yellow + crescent + blister beetle (“beetle in the family Meloidae”), after their elytral patterns.

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