Definition of Rove beetle

1. Noun. Active beetle typically having predatory or scavenging habits.

Generic synonyms: Beetle
Group relationships: Family Staphylinidae, Staphylinidae

Definition of Rove beetle

1. Noun. Any of various carnivorous or scavenging beetles of the family ''Staphylinidae'' that are often found in decaying matter and have slender bodies and short wing covers. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rove Beetle

routinizes
routinizing
routish
routous
routously
routs
rouvilleite
roux
rouxelite
rouze
rouzed
rouzes
rouzing
roué
rove
rove beetle
rove beetles
roved
rovelizumab
roven
rover
rovers
roves
rovibrational
rovibrationally
rovibronic
roving
rovingly
rovingness
rovings

Literary usage of Rove beetle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Butterflies and Bees: The Insect Folk : Volume II by Margaret Warner Morley (1905)
"THE rove beetle ~= Now this is a rove beetle. It is also anxious to have a share ... But let me tell you, the rove beetle can fly in spite of appearances. ..."

2. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1907)
"... or rove-beetle family, is a large and widely distributed group, its members being characterized by the possession of short, leathery wing-covers, ..."

3. Harmful Non-Indigenous Species in the United States (1994)
"... beetle rove beetle rove beetle rove beetle rove beetle rove beetle rove beetle rove beetle rove beetle Russian wheat aphid Sawfly Sawfly Scale predator ..."

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