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SCARABAEID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scarabaeid mean? 

SCARABAEID (noun)
  The noun SCARABAEID has 1 sense:

1. any of numerous species of stout-bodied beetles having heads with horny spikesplay

  Familiarity information: SCARABAEID used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SCARABAEID (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of numerous species of stout-bodied beetles having heads with horny spikes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

scarabaean; scarabaeid; scarabaeid beetle

Hypernyms ("scarabaeid" is a kind of...):

lamellicorn beetle (beetle having antennae with hard platelike terminal segments)

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

dung beetle (any of numerous beetles that roll balls of dung on which they feed and in which they lay eggs)

June beetle; June bug; May beetle; May bug (any of various large usually brown North American leaf-eating beetles common in late spring; the larvae feed on roots of grasses etc.)

Japanese beetle; Popillia japonica (small metallic green and brown beetle native to eastern Asia; serious plant pest in North America)

Anomala orientalis; Asiatic beetle; Oriental beetle (introduced into United States from the Orient; larvae feed on roots of sugarcane and other grasses)

rhinoceros beetle (any of various large chiefly tropical beetles having horns on the head; pest on coconuts)

melolonthid beetle (any of various beetles of the family (or subfamily) Melolonthidae)

Cetonia aurata; rose beetle; rose chafer (a common metallic green European beetle: larvae feed on plant roots and adults on leaves and flowers of e.g. roses)

Holonyms ("scarabaeid" is a member of...):

family Scarabaeidae; Scarabaeidae (scarab or dung beetles)


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