HyperDic: flour_beetle

English > 1 sense of the expression flour beetle:
NOUNanimalflour beetle, flour weevilan insect that infests flour and stored grains / grains
English > flour beetle: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
MeaningAn insect that infests flour and stored grains / grains.
Synonymflour weevil
Member ofTribolium, genus Triboliumflour beetles
Broaderdarkling beetle, darkling groung beetle, tenebrionidsluggish / sluggish hard-bodied black terrestrial / terrestrial weevil whose larvae feed on e.g. decaying plant material or grain

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