CALOSOMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does calosoma mean? 

• CALOSOMA (noun)
  The noun CALOSOMA has 1 sense:

1. any beetle of the genus Calosoma

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CALOSOMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any beetle of the genus Calosoma

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Nouns denoting animals

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

carabid beetle; ground beetle (predacious shining black or metallic terrestrial beetle that destroys many injurious insects)

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

Calosoma scrutator; searcher; searcher beetle (large metallic blue-green beetle that preys on caterpillars; found in North America)

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

genus Calosoma (genus of large predaceous ground beetles that feed on injurious caterpillars)