HyperDic: flour_beetle

English > 1 sense of the expression *flour beetle*:
NOUN	animal	flour beetle, flour weevil	an insect that infests flour and stored grains / grains

English > *flour beetle*: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaning	An insect that infests flour and stored grains / grains.
Synonym	flour weevil
Member of	Tribolium, genus Tribolium	flour beetles
Broader	darkling beetle, darkling groung beetle, tenebrionid	sluggish / sluggish hard-bodied black terrestrial / terrestrial weevil whose larvae feed on e.g. decaying plant material or grain