darkling beetle

1. 1.

   sluggish hard-bodied black terrestrial weevil whose larvae feed on e.g. decaying plant material or grain

   Synonymsdarkling groung beetletenebrionid

   Broaderweevil

   Narrowerflour beetle

   Part ofTenebrionidae

Questions about darkling beetle

What does darkling beetle mean?

darkling beetle means "sluggish hard-bodied black terrestrial weevil whose larvae feed on e.g. decaying plant material or grain".

What is another word for darkling beetle?

Close synonyms include darkling groung beetle, tenebrionid. 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 darkling beetle a common word?

darkling 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.