FLOUR BEETLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flour beetle mean? 

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

1. an insect that infests flour and stored grains

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLOUR BEETLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An insect that infests flour and stored grains

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

flour beetle; flour weevil

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

darkling beetle; darkling groung beetle; tenebrionid (sluggish hard-bodied black terrestrial weevil whose larvae feed on e.g. decaying plant material or grain)

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

genus Tribolium; Tribolium (flour beetles)