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ambrosia beetles

ambrosia beetles is the plural of ambrosia beetle.

Meaning of ambrosia beetle

Noun

ambrosia beetle (plural ambrosia beetles)

  1. Any of those species of true weevils (family Curculionidae) that live in nutritional symbiosis with ambrosia fungi, including almost all of the species of the subfamily Platypodinae and some of the species of bark beetles in Scolytinae.
    • There are also parallels and interesting contrasts between mycophagous bark beetles and ambrosia beetles in the way they carry their fungal symbionts, the range of fungi that have been exploited by the beetles, and the morphological adaptations that some of the fungi have made to maintain the...2005, Fernando E. Vega, Insect-Fungal Associations: Ecology and Evolution, page 258
    Synonyms:
    platypodine

Questions about ambrosia beetles

What is ambrosia beetles the plural of?
Ambrosia beetles is the plural of ambrosia beetle.

Words near ambrosia beetles in the dictionary

  1. Ambroises
  2. Ambrosden
  3. ambrose
  4. ambrosia
  5. ambrosia beetle
  6. ambrosia beetles
  7. ambrosia fungi
  8. ambrosia fungus
  9. ambrosiac
  10. ambrosiae
  11. ambrosial

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