carpet beetle

1. 1.

   small beetle whose larvae are household pests feeding on woolen fabrics

   Synonymscarpet bug

   Broaderbeetle

   Narrowerbuffalo carpet beetleblack carpet beetle

   Part ofDermestidae

Questions about carpet beetle

What does carpet beetle mean?

carpet beetle means "small beetle whose larvae are household pests feeding on woolen fabrics".

What is another word for carpet beetle?

Close synonyms include carpet bug. 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 carpet beetle a common word?

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.