lady beetle

Questions about lady beetle

What does lady beetle mean?

lady beetle means "small round bright-colored and spotted beetle that usually feeds on aphids and other insect pests".

What is another word for lady beetle?

Close synonyms include ladybug, ladybeetle, ladybird, ladybird 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 lady beetle a common word?

lady 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.