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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DERMESTOID

Der *mes "toid, a. Etym: [Dermestes + -oid.] (Zoöl.)

 

Defn: Pertaining to or resembling the genus Dermestes. The carpet beetle, called the buffalo moth, is a dermestoid beetle. Pop. Sci. Monthly.