DERMESTID

[der.mes.tid] n [ultim. fr. Gk dermestes, a leather-eating worm, lit., skin eater, fr. derm- + edmenai to eat--more at eat] (ca. 1888): any of a family (Dermestidae) of beetles with clubbed antennae that are very destructive to organic material of animal origin (as dried meat, wool, or museum specimens) -- dermestid adj