clerid beetle

1. 1.

   predacious on other insects; usually brightly colored or metallic

   Synonymsclerid

   Broaderbeetle

   Narrowerbee beetle

   Part ofCleridae

Questions about clerid beetle

What does clerid beetle mean?

clerid beetle means "predacious on other insects; usually brightly colored or metallic".

What is another word for clerid beetle?

Close synonyms include clerid. 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 clerid beetle a common word?

clerid 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.