histerid
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any of the numerous beetles in the family Histeridae; a clown beetle.
Example Sentences
- "Later, mostly in the 1950s, eight more histerid species were imported into Hawaii to attack the horn fly, of which four became established, including Pachylister caffer (Erichson) (Legner, 1978; Funasaki et al, 1988)."
- "Histerids are mainly predators of soft-bodied insect larvae and eggs, particularly those of cyclorraphan^([sic – meaning cyclorrhaphan]) Diptera."
- "Histerids are scavengers and predators in decomposing organic material such as animal carcasses."