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noun
Any member of family Tenebrionidae of darkling beetles.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
sluggish hard-bodied black terrestrial weevil whose larvae feed on e.g. decaying plant material or grain
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: darkling beetle, darkling groung beetle
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: weevil
Narrower terms: flour beetle, flour weevil
History
Borrowed from translingual Tenebrionidae.
