English Explanatory Dictionary

buprestidan

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of a number of jewel beetles of the family Buprestidae, usually with shiny metallic colours.

Word forms

buprestidan buprestidans

Etymology

Latin buprestis, Ancient Greek a poisonous beetle, which, being eaten by cattle in the grass, caused them to swell up and die; ox, cow + to blow up, swell out.

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