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CARABIDAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Carabidae mean?
• CARABIDAE (noun)
The noun CARABIDAE has 1 sense:
1. ground beetles
Familiarity information: CARABIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Ground beetles
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Carabidae; family Carabidae
Hypernyms ("Carabidae" is a kind of...):
arthropod family (any of the arthropods)
Meronyms (members of "Carabidae"):
carabid beetle; ground beetle (predacious shining black or metallic terrestrial beetle that destroys many injurious insects)
Brachinus; genus Brachinus (bombardier beetles)
genus Calosoma (genus of large predaceous ground beetles that feed on injurious caterpillars)
Holonyms ("Carabidae" is a member of...):
Coleoptera; order Coleoptera (beetles)
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