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scolytoids

scolytoids is the plural of scolytoid.

Meaning of scolytoid

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

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Questions about scolytoids

What is scolytoids the plural of?
Scolytoids is the plural of scolytoid.

Words near scolytoids in the dictionary

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

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