SCARABAEIDAE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Scarab or dung beetles

Synonyms:

family Scarabaeidae; Scarabaeidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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)