FLOUR BEETLE
Dictionary entry overview: What does flour beetle mean? • FLOUR BEETLE (noun)
The noun FLOUR BEETLE has 1 sense:
1. infests flour and stored grains
Familiarity information: FLOUR BEETLE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• FLOUR BEETLE (noun)
Meaning:
Infests flour and stored grains
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
flour beetle; flour weevil
Hypernyms ("flour beetle" is a kind of...):
darkling beetle; darkling groung beetle; tenebrionid (sluggish hard-bodied black terrestrial weevil whose larvae feed on e.g. decaying plant material or grain)
Holonyms ("flour beetle" is a member of...):
genus Tribolium; Tribolium (flour beetles)
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