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• b[=u]-pres'tis, n. a genus of beetles, typical of a large family, Buprestidæ, those occurring in warmer countries having lively colour and metallic sheen--some known as Golden Beetles. [L.,--Gr. bouprestis, bous, an ox, pr[=e]thein, to swell.]

1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
By Thomas Davidson