- darkling beetle
- dark′ling bee`tlen.ent any brown or black beetle of the family Tenebrionidae, the larvae of which feed on decaying plant matter
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darkling beetle
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Darkling beetle — Darkling beetles Alphitobius sp. (Tenebrioninae: Alphitobiini) Scale bar (top right) is 2 millimeters Scientific classification Kingdom … Wikipedia
darkling beetle — n. any of a family (Tenebrionidae) of sluggish, dark beetles that feed on plants at night … English World dictionary
darkling beetle — any brown or black beetle of the family Tenebrionidae, the larvae of which feed on dead or decaying plant material, fungi, stored grain, etc. Also called tenebrionid. [1810 20] * * * any member of the approximately 12,000 species of the… … Universalium
darkling beetle — noun sluggish hard bodied black terrestrial weevil whose larvae feed on e.g. decaying plant material or grain • Syn: ↑darkling groung beetle, ↑tenebrionid • Hypernyms: ↑weevil • Hyponyms: ↑flour beetle, ↑flour weevil … Useful english dictionary
darkling beetle — noun Date: 1816 any of a family (Tenebrionidae) of firm bodied mostly dark colored vegetable feeding nocturnal beetles which often have vestigial and functionless wings and whose larvae are usually hard cylindrical worms (as a mealworm) called… … New Collegiate Dictionary
Darkling (Star Trek: Voyager) — Darkling Star Trek: Voyager episode Episode no. Season 3 Episode 18 Directed by Alexander Singer Written by … Wikipedia
Beetle — Beetles redirects here. For the band, see The Beatles. For the car, see Volkswagen Beetle. This article is about the insect. For other uses, see Beetle (disambiguation). Beetle Temporal range: 318–0 Ma … Wikipedia
Darkling — For the beetle, see Darkling beetle. For the comic book character, see Asylum (comics). For an Ing possessed creature, see Infobox Star Trek episode name = The Darkling Lord Byron, Gandhi, and Neelix series = VOY ep num = 60 prod num = 161 date … Wikipedia
darkling groung beetle — noun sluggish hard bodied black terrestrial weevil whose larvae feed on e.g. decaying plant material or grain • Syn: ↑darkling beetle, ↑tenebrionid • Hypernyms: ↑weevil • Hyponyms: ↑flour beetle, ↑flour weevil … Useful english dictionary
darkling ground beetle — noun see darkling beetle … Useful english dictionary
