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Definition of Ground beetle
1. Noun. Predacious shining black or metallic terrestrial beetle that destroys many injurious insects.
Generic synonyms: Beetle
Group relationships: Carabidae, Family Carabidae
Specialized synonyms: Bombardier Beetle, Calosoma
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ground Beetle
Literary usage of Ground beetle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. General Biology: A Book of Outlines and Practical Studies for the General by James George Needham (1910)
"... ture of ground beetle and diving beetle. Materials needed: A supply of specimens
... examination of the external structures, first of the ground beetle, ..."
2. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"CORN ground beetle ... with rusty jaws and legs, very broad and convex, the wings
large, the antennae short and Corn ground beetle: 1, larva, magnified; 2, ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"In carp., the sill for a frame. ground-beetle (ground'be'tl), ». A predatory
beetle of the ... To the herbivorous group belongs the murky ground-beetle, ..."
4. The Minnesota Horticulturist by Minnesota State Horticultural Society (1886)
"A very useful species is the Rummaging ground-beetle ... Another species equally
valuable and almost as attractive is the Fiery ground- beetle (Calosoma ..."
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