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Webster 1913 Edition


Carabid

Car′a-bid

,
Adj.
(Zool.)
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the genus
Carabus
or family
Carabidae
.
Noun.
One of the
Carabidae
, a family of active insectivorous beetles.

Definition 2024


carabid

carabid

English

Noun

carabid (plural carabids)

  1. Any of very many shiny black beetles of the family Carabidae
    • 2010, Comprehensive Natural Products II: Chemistry and Biology, page 392:
      Chemically unknown tissue toxins from internal organs that may kill Pterostichus carabids are uniquely known from the milacid slug Tandonia budapestensis, which shows an aposematic coloration (orange dorsal line).

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