ipidae

English Thesaurus

1. large family of bark-boring or wood-boring short-beaked beetles; very destructive to forest and fruit trees (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	arthropod family,
definition	:	any of the arthropods (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	genus scolytus, scolytus,
definition	:	type genus of the Scolytidae comprising numerous small bark beetles (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	dendroctonus, genus dendroctonus,
definition	:	genus of small bark beetles destructive especially to mature conifers (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	bark beetle,
definition	:	small beetle that bores tunnels in the bark and wood of trees; related to weevils (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	coleoptera, order coleoptera,
definition	:	beetles (noun.animal)