ground beetle

What does ground beetle mean?

ground beetle means "predacious shining black or metallic terrestrial beetle that destroys many injurious insects".

What is another word for ground beetle?

Close synonyms include carabid 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 ground beetle a common word?

ground 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ground beetle come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.