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Definition of Tiger beetle
1. Noun. Active usually bright-colored beetle that preys on other insects.
Definition of Tiger beetle
1. Noun. (zoology) Any active, carnivorous beetle (species) of the family Cicinidelidae ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tiger Beetle
Literary usage of Tiger beetle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Homes Without Hands: Being a Description of the Habitations of Animals by John George Wood (1866)
"The tiger beetle, and its habits—Beauty of the Insect, its Larva, ... FIRST among
the British coleoptera comes the lovely tiger beetle ..."
2. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales by Linnean Society of New South Wales (1901)
"STUDIES IN AUSTRALIAN ENTOMOLOGY. No. X. DESCRIPTION OF A NEW tiger beetle FROM
WESTERN AUSTRALIA. By THOMAS G. SLOANE. ..."
3. Winston's Cumulative Loose-leaf Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Reference Workedited by Thomas Edward Finegan edited by Thomas Edward Finegan (1922)
"... Tiel Tiger-beetle stage. He died at Berlin on April 28, 1853. — His brother,
CHRISTIAN FRIED- RICH (born in 1776; died in 1851), was celebrated as a ..."
4. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1880)
"The Carolina tiger-beetle can at ouco be distinguished from the only other North
American representative of the genus ..."
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