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scolytoid

scolytoid adjective: resembling or characteristic of the bark-beetle genus Scolytus.

Adjective

scolytoid (not comparable)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of the bark-beetle genus Scolytus.

Noun

scolytoid (plural scolytoids)

  1. A beetle of the bark-beetle genus Scolytus.
    • When suitable conditions for the cultivation of ambrosial fungi appear, the better-known 'pin-hole' borers (scolytoids) tunnel the wood.1961, Arthur Ramon Penfold, J. L. Willis, The Eucalypts: Botany, Cultivation, Chemistry, and Utilization, page 166

Forms of scolytoid

pluralscolytoids

Origin of scolytoid

Scolytus + -oid

Questions about scolytoid

What does scolytoid mean?
Scolytoid means resembling or characteristic of the bark-beetle genus Scolytus.
What part of speech is scolytoid?
Scolytoid can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near scolytoid in the dictionary

  1. scolymoside
  2. scolytid
  3. scolytids
  4. scolytine
  5. scolytines
  6. scolytoid
  7. scolytoids
  8. Scoma
  9. scomber
  10. scombered
  11. scomberesocid

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