Panesthia

noun

Pan·​es·​thia

paˈnesthēə

: a genus of subsocial burrowing cockroaches

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from pan- + Greek esthein to eat + New Latin -ia; akin to Greek (Homeric) edmenai to eat; from the characteristic of biting off each other's wings

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