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dermestoid

dermestoid adjective: pertaining to or resembling the genus Dermestes.

dermestoid: pertaining to or resembling the genus Dermestes
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Adjective

dermestoid (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to or resembling the genus Dermestes.
    • The carpet-beetle, which is commonly, but with no good reason, called the buffalo-moth, is a dermestoid beetle.April 1887, Popular Science Monthly
    Synonyms:
    dermestic

Synonyms of dermestoid

  • dermestic

Origin of dermestoid

Dermestes + -oid

Questions about dermestoid

What does dermestoid mean?
Dermestoid means pertaining to or resembling the genus Dermestes.
What part of speech is dermestoid?
Dermestoid is an adjective.

Words near dermestoid in the dictionary

  1. dermatrophy
  2. dermcidin
  3. Dermer
  4. dermestid
  5. dermestids
  6. dermestoid
  7. dermethmoid
  8. dermethmoids
  9. dermic
  10. dermicidin
  11. dermides

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