| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun | 1. One of a tribe of beetles, of the genus Buprestis and allied genera, usually with brilliant metallic colors. The larvae are usually borers in timber, or beneath bark, and are often very destructive to trees.[Websters]. | |
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Date "BUPRESTIDAN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
| Etymology:Buprestidan \Bu*pres"ti*dan\, noun. [Latin expression buprestis, Greek, poisonous beetle, which, being eaten by cattle in the grass, caused them to swell up and and die; ox, cow to blow up, swell out.]. (references) |
