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    FAMILY IPIDAE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Large family of bark-boring or wood-boring short-beaked beetles; very destructive to forest and fruit treesplay

    Synonyms:

    family Ipidae; family Scolytidae; Ipidae; Scolytidae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("family Ipidae" is a kind of...):

    arthropod family (any of the arthropods)

    Meronyms (members of "family Ipidae"):

    genus Scolytus; Scolytus (type genus of the Scolytidae comprising numerous small bark beetles)

    Dendroctonus; genus Dendroctonus (genus of small bark beetles destructive especially to mature conifers)

    bark beetle (small beetle that bores tunnels in the bark and wood of trees; related to weevils)

    Holonyms ("family Ipidae" is a member of...):

    Coleoptera; order Coleoptera (beetles)

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