Definition of Tiger beetle

1. Noun. Active usually bright-colored beetle that preys on other insects.

Generic synonyms: Beetle
Group relationships: Cicindelidae, Family Cicindelidae

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

tifting
tifts
tig
tigatuzumab
tige
tigecycline
tigella
tigellae
tigelle
tigemonam
tiger's-foot
tiger's eye
tiger-eye
tiger-foot
tiger beetle (current term)
tiger beetles
tiger bench
tiger bread
tiger cat
tiger cowrie
tiger cub
tiger cubs
tiger economies
tiger economy
tiger heart
tiger kidnap
tiger kidnapped
tiger kidnapping
tiger kidnaps

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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