FAMILY SCARABAEIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Scarabaeidae mean? 

• FAMILY SCARABAEIDAE (noun)
  The noun FAMILY SCARABAEIDAE has 1 sense:

1. scarab or dung beetles

  Familiarity information: FAMILY SCARABAEIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY SCARABAEIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Scarab or dung beetles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Scarabaeidae; Scarabaeidae

Hypernyms ("family Scarabaeidae" is a kind of...):

arthropod family (any of the arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "family Scarabaeidae"):

scarabaean; scarabaeid; scarabaeid beetle (any of numerous species of stout-bodied beetles having heads with horny spikes)

genus Scarabaeus (type genus of the Scarabaeidae)

genus Popillia; Popillia (a genus of Scarabaeidae)

Anomala; genus Anomala (genus of beetles whose grubs feed mainly on roots of plants; includes several pests of cultivated grasses)

Melolonthidae; subfamily Melolonthidae; Cetoniidae; subfamily Cetoniidae (considered a separate family in some classification systems)

Holonyms ("family Scarabaeidae" is a member of...):

Lamellicornia; superfamily Lamellicornia (scarabaeid beetles and stag beetles)