DARKLING BEETLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does darkling beetle mean? 

• DARKLING BEETLE (noun)
  The noun DARKLING BEETLE has 1 sense:

1. sluggish hard-bodied black terrestrial weevil whose larvae feed on e.g. decaying plant material or grain

  Familiarity information: DARKLING BEETLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DARKLING BEETLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sluggish hard-bodied black terrestrial weevil whose larvae feed on e.g. decaying plant material or grain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

darkling beetle; darkling groung beetle; tenebrionid

Hypernyms ("darkling beetle" is a kind of...):

weevil (any of several families of mostly small beetles that feed on plants and plant products; especially snout beetles and seed beetles)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "darkling beetle"):

flour beetle; flour weevil (an insect that infests flour and stored grains)

Holonyms ("darkling beetle" is a member of...):

family Tenebrionidae; Tenebrionidae (a family of arthropods including darkling beetles and mealworms)