carabid beetle

1. 1.

   predacious shining black or metallic terrestrial beetle that destroys many injurious insects

   Synonymsground beetle

   Broaderbeetle

   Narrowerbombardier beetlecalosoma

   Part ofCarabidae

Questions about carabid beetle

What does carabid beetle mean?

carabid beetle means "predacious shining black or metallic terrestrial beetle that destroys many injurious insects".

What is another word for carabid beetle?

Close synonyms include ground beetle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is carabid beetle a common word?

carabid 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.