DARKLING BEETLE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Sluggish hard-bodied black terrestrial weevil whose larvae feed on e.g. decaying plant material or grain

Synonyms:

darkling beetle; darkling groung beetle; tenebrionid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

weevil (any of several families of mostly small beetles that feed on plants and plant products; especially snout beetles and seed beetles)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "darkling beetle"):

flour beetle; flour weevil (an insect that infests flour and stored grains)

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

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