forficula auricularia

1. 1.

   sometimes destructive to cultivated bulbs

   Synonymscommon European earwig

   Broaderearwig

   Part ofForficula

Questions about forficula auricularia

What does forficula auricularia mean?

forficula auricularia means "sometimes destructive to cultivated bulbs".

What is another word for forficula auricularia?

Close synonyms include common European earwig. 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 forficula auricularia a common word?

forficula auricularia 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.