flour beetle

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   an insect that infests flour and stored grains

   Synonymsflour weevil

   Broaderdarkling beetle

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Questions about flour beetle

What does flour beetle mean?

flour beetle means "an insect that infests flour and stored grains".

What is another word for flour beetle?

Close synonyms include flour weevil. 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 flour beetle a common word?

flour 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.