English noun: darkling beetle | |||
1. | darkling beetle (animal) sluggish hard-bodied black terrestrial weevil whose larvae feed on e.g. decaying plant material or grain | ||
Synonyms | darkling groung beetle, tenebrionid | ||
Broader (hypernym) | weevil | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | flour beetle, flour weevil | ||
Member meronym | family Tenebrionidae, Tenebrionidae | ||