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Meloidae

noun

blister beetles

• Syn: ↑family Meloidae

• Hypernyms: ↑arthropod family

• Member Holonyms: ↑Coleoptera, ↑order Coleoptera

• Member Meronyms: ↑blister beetle, ↑meloid

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\\mə̇ˈlōəˌdē, -lȯiˌ-\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Meloe, type genus + -idae

: a widely distributed family of moderate-sized usually rather soft-bodied cylindrical beetles that exhibit a complex hypermetamorphosis during development, are often defoliators as adults, and include some whose larvae are beneficial predators on other insects — see blister beetle, meloe

Useful english dictionary. 2012.