COLEOPTERA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Coleoptera mean? 

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

1. beetles

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLEOPTERA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Beetles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Coleoptera; order Coleoptera

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

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Coleoptera"):

Lamellicornia; superfamily Lamellicornia (scarabaeid beetles and stag beetles)

Bruchidae; family Bruchidae (seed beetles)

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

family Staphylinidae; Staphylinidae (rove beetles)

family Ipidae; family Scolytidae; Ipidae; Scolytidae (large family of bark-boring or wood-boring short-beaked beetles; very destructive to forest and fruit trees)

family Meloidae; Meloidae (blister beetles)

Curculionidae; family Curculionidae (true weevils: snout beetles)

Anobiidae; family Anobiidae (deathwatch beetles)

family Gyrinidae; Gyrinidae (whirligig beetles)

Dytiscidae; family Dytiscidae (water beetles)

Elateridae; family Elateridae (click beetles and certain fireflies)

Cleridae; family Cleridae (beetles that prey on other insects)

Dermestidae; family Dermestidae (carpet beetles)

Chrysomelidae; family Chrysomelidae (leaf beetles)

Cerambycidae; family Cerambycidae (long-horned beetles)

family Lampyridae; Lampyridae (fireflies)

Carabidae; family Carabidae (ground beetles)

Coccinellidae; family Coccinellidae (the ladybugs)

Cicindelidae; family Cicindelidae (tiger beetles)

beetle (insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings)

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

class Hexapoda; class Insecta; Hexapoda; Insecta (insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species)

 Context examples 

Peculiarly rich in the coleoptera and in the lepidoptera, forty-six new species of the one and ninety-four of the other had been secured in the course of a few weeks.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)