bean beetle

Questions about bean beetle

What is another word for bean beetle?

It depends which bean beetle you mean. In the sense “introduced into the United States from Mexico; feeds on the foliage of the bean plant”, the synonyms are Mexican bean beetle, Epilachna varivestis. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of bean beetle?

WordNet records no antonym for bean beetle. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for bean beetle come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of bean beetle

• Full entry for bean beetleAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for bean beetleWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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