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pachybrachine

pachybrachine noun: any beetle of the chrysomelid tribe Pachybrachini (subtribe Pachybrachina in some classifications).

Noun

pachybrachine (uncountable)

  1. Any beetle of the chrysomelid tribe Pachybrachini (subtribe Pachybrachina in some classifications).
    • The first one I beat yielded a very large cryptocephaline that I had not seen on any of the other Prosopis, so I continued beating them and collected a nice series along with a few other clytrines, pachybrachines, and curculionoids.2022 May 14, Ted C. MacRae, Cupressaceae

Origin of pachybrachine

From translingual Pachybrachis + -ine.

Questions about pachybrachine

What does pachybrachine mean?
Pachybrachine means any beetle of the chrysomelid tribe Pachybrachini (subtribe Pachybrachina in some classifications).
What part of speech is pachybrachine?
Pachybrachine is a noun.

Words near pachybrachine in the dictionary

  1. pachucos
  2. pachulosis
  3. pachy
  4. pachy-
  5. pachyblepharon
  6. pachybrachine
  7. pachycarpous
  8. pachycaul
  9. pachycaulous
  10. pachycauls
  11. pachycauly

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