bu|pres|tid

bu|pres|tid «byoo PREHS tihd», noun.

any one of a family of beetles, often brilliantly colored, having short, toothed antennae and a long, tapering abdomen. The eggs are laid in the bark of trees and plants, and the larvae are often destructive borers in the wood.

╂[< Latin bū prestis a poisonous beetle < Greek boûprēstis, (literally) ox-sweller < boûs ox + pr cause to swell (because of their fatal effect on cattle who eat them)]