scarabaeid beetle

Questions about scarabaeid beetle

What does scarabaeid beetle mean?

scarabaeid beetle means "any of numerous species of stout-bodied beetles having heads with horny spikes".

What is another word for scarabaeid beetle?

Close synonyms include scarabaeid, scarabaean. 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 scarabaeid beetle a common word?

scarabaeid 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.