noun
a family of arthropods including darkling beetles and mealworms
• Syn: ↑family Tenebrionidae
• Hypernyms: ↑arthropod family
• Member Holonyms: ↑Coleoptera, ↑order Coleoptera
• Member Meronyms: ↑darkling beetle, ↑darkling groung beetle, ↑tenebrionid, ↑mealworm, ↑Tribolium, ↑genus Tribolium
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Etymology: New Latin, from Tenebrion-, Tenebrio, type genus (from Latin, one who shuns light, from tenebrae darkness) + -idae
: a large family of heteromerous firm-bodied mostly dark-colored vegetable-feeding beetles especially characteristic of arid regions and often with the hind wings vestigial and functionless and with larvae that are usually hard cylindrical worms — see darkling beetle, mealworm
Useful english dictionary. 2012.