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    DARKLING GROUNG BEETLE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Sluggish hard-bodied black terrestrial weevil whose larvae feed on e.g. decaying plant material or grainplay

    Synonyms:

    darkling beetle; darkling groung beetle; tenebrionid

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("darkling groung beetle" is a kind of...):

    weevil (any of several families of mostly small beetles that feed on plants and plant products; especially snout beetles and seed beetles)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "darkling groung beetle"):

    flour beetle; flour weevil (an insect that infests flour and stored grains)

    Holonyms ("darkling groung beetle" is a member of...):

    family Tenebrionidae; Tenebrionidae (a family of arthropods including darkling beetles and mealworms)

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