rove beetle

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   active beetle typically having predatory or scavenging habits

   Broaderbeetle

   Part ofStaphylinidae

Questions about rove beetle

What does rove beetle mean?

rove beetle means "active beetle typically having predatory or scavenging habits".

Is rove beetle a common word?

rove 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.