tiger beetle

1. 1.

   active usually bright-colored beetle that preys on other insects

   Broaderbeetle

   Part ofCicindelidae

Questions about tiger beetle

What does tiger beetle mean?

tiger beetle means "active usually bright-colored beetle that preys on other insects".

Is tiger beetle a common word?

tiger 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.