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Definition of Seed beetle
1. Noun. A small beetle that infests the seeds of legumes.
Exact synonyms: Seed Weevil
Generic synonyms: Weevil
Group relationships: Bruchidae, Family Bruchidae
Specialized synonyms: Bruchus Pisorum, Pea Weevil, Acanthoscelides Obtectus, Bean Weevil
Generic synonyms: Weevil
Group relationships: Bruchidae, Family Bruchidae
Specialized synonyms: Bruchus Pisorum, Pea Weevil, Acanthoscelides Obtectus, Bean Weevil
Lexicographical Neighbors of Seed Beetle
Literary usage of Seed beetle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Observations of Injurious Insects and Common Farm Pests ... with Methods of by Eleanor Anne Ormerod (1891)
"American and South African Bean-seed Beetle. ... injured by beetle, vegetating;
9 and 10, b. pisi (Pea-seed Beetle), nat. size and mag.; 11, injured Pea. ..."
2. Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the by Arnold James Cooley (1892)
"... the brilliant rape-seed beetle. Nördlinger described it in 1855 as most
troublesome to rape-seed cultivators. He adds that plants from seed drilled in ..."
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