scolytoid

English

Etymology

Scolytus +‎ -oid

Adjective

scolytoid (not comparable)

1. (zoology) Resembling or characteristic of the bark-beetle genus Scolytus.

Noun

scolytoid (plural scolytoids)

1. (zoology) A beetle of the bark-beetle genus Scolytus.
   • 1961, Arthur Ramon Penfold, J. L. Willis, The Eucalypts: Botany, Cultivation, Chemistry, and Utilization, page 166:

     When suitable conditions for the cultivation of ambrosial fungi appear, the better-known 'pin-hole' borers (scolytoids) tunnel the wood.