flour beetle
1Flour beetle — Flour beetles Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Subphyl …
2flour beetle — noun an insect that infests flour and stored grains • Syn: ↑flour weevil • Hypernyms: ↑darkling beetle, ↑darkling groung beetle, ↑tenebrionid • Member Holonyms: ↑Tribolium, ↑ …
3flour beetle — any of several brown darkling beetles, esp. of the genus Tribolium, that infest, breed in, feed on, and often pollute flour, stored grain, and other stored produce. [1885 90] * * * …
4flour beetle — noun Date: 1888 any of various small darkling beetles (especially Tribolium confusum and T. castaneum) that typically feed on and lay eggs in stored grain and grain products …
5Confused flour beetle — Tribolium confusum Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum …
6Destructive flour beetle — Dark flour beetle Tribolium destructor Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia …
7confused flour beetle — noun Etymology: so called from its being confused with the red flour beetle (Tribolium castaneum) : a cosmopolitan beetle (Tribolium confusum) that feeds both as larva and adult chiefly on damaged grain called also bran bug * * * a brown flour… …
8red flour beetle — noun : a reddish brown beetle (Tribolium castaneum) that feeds on grain, cereals, stored fruits and other products * * * a reddish brown flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum, that feeds on stored grain, dried fruit, etc …
9confused flour beetle — a brown flour beetle, Tribolium confusum, that feeds on stored grain and grain products. [appar. so called because it is confused with similar beetles] * * * …
10red flour beetle — a reddish brown flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum, that feeds on stored grain, dried fruit, etc. * * * …
