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flour-beetle

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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A beetle, Tenebrio molitor, which lives in all its stages on flour or farinaceous substances. The larva is an inch long, cylindrical, smooth and glossy, and is known as the meal-worm. See also cut under meal-worm.
  • noun Any one of several beetles of the genus Tribolium, as T. ferrugineum and T. confusum.

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  1. broad-horned flour-beetle
  2. confused flour-beetle
  3. depressed flour-beetle
  4. rust-red flour-beetle
  5. slender-horned flour-beetle
  6. small-eyed flour-beetle

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