| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| buprestid |
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| SYLLABICATION: | bu·pres·tid |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  by -pr s t d |
| NOUN: | Any of various beetles of the family Buprestidae, which are destructive wood borers as larvae and often have a metallic red, green, or blue color. | | ETYMOLOGY: | From New Latin B pr stidae, family name, from Bprstis, type genus, from Latin bprstis, beetle harmful to cattle, from Greek bouprstis : bous, ox; see gwou- in Appendix I + prthein, to swell up.
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