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dried-fruit beetle
nounDefinition of dried-fruit beetle
: a very small broad brown beetle (Carpophilus hemipterus) with pale-spotted elytra which do not cover the abdomen that is a cosmopolitan pest on stored products and is especially destructive to dried fruit and cereals
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