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SCARABAEIDAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Scarabaeidae mean?
• SCARABAEIDAE (noun)
The noun SCARABAEIDAE has 1 sense:
1. scarab or dung beetles
Familiarity information: SCARABAEIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Scarab or dung beetles
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
family Scarabaeidae; Scarabaeidae
Hypernyms ("Scarabaeidae" is a kind of...):
arthropod family (any of the arthropods)
Meronyms (members of "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 ("Scarabaeidae" is a member of...):
Lamellicornia; superfamily Lamellicornia (scarabaeid beetles and stag beetles)
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