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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for carpet beetle come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.