carpet bug

What does carpet bug mean?

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

What is another word for carpet bug?

Close synonyms include carpet 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 carpet bug a common word?

carpet bug 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 bug come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.