black carpet beetle

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   a carpet beetle that is solid black in color

   Broadercarpet beetle

Questions about black carpet beetle

What does black carpet beetle mean?

black carpet beetle means "a carpet beetle that is solid black in color".

Is black carpet beetle a common word?

black carpet beetle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.