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flour beetle
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noun
any of several brown darkling beetles, especially of the genus Tribolium, that infest, breed in, feed on, and often pollute flour, stored grain, and other stored produce.
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Origin of flour beetle
First recorded in 1885–90
Words nearby flour beetle
flouncing, flouncy, flounder, floundering, flour, flour beetle, flourish, flourishing, flour mill, flour mite, flour moth
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