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noun
Any of a number of jewel beetles of the family Buprestidae, usually with shiny metallic colours.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, in-plural
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
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History
Latin buprestis, Ancient Greek a poisonous beetle, which, being eaten by cattle in the grass, caused them to swell up and die; ox, cow + to blow up, swell out.
