TENEBRIONID

[te.ne.bri.o.nid] n [NL Tenebrionidae, fr. Tenebrion-, Tenebrio, type genus, fr. L, one that shuns the light, fr. tenebrae darkness--more at temerity] (1902): any of a family (Tenebrionidae) of firm-bodied mostly dark-colored vegetable-feeding beetles which often have vestigial and functionless wings and whose larvae are usu. hard cylindrical worms (as a mealworm)--called also darkling beetle -- tenebrionid adj