"black beetle" meaning in All languages combined

See black beetle on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: black beetles [plural], blackbeetle [alternative], black-beetle [alternative]
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  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black, beetle.
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  2. An oriental cockroach (Blatta orientalis), a large roach from the family Blattidae. Synonyms (Blatta orientalis): oriental cockroach, Oriental cockroach, oriental roach, waterbug Translations (oriental cockroach): Küchenschabe [feminine] (German), ゴキブリ (gokiburi) (Japanese), чёрный тарака́н (čórnyj tarakán) [masculine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-black_beetle-en-noun-ODtaFJWM Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Japanese translations, Beetles, Cockroaches, Scarabaeoids Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 21 14 22 22 22 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 1 22 18 19 20 19 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 1 21 18 20 20 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 2 13 22 19 24 19 Disambiguation of Beetles: 4 13 16 22 22 22 Disambiguation of Cockroaches: 1 26 18 19 19 19 Disambiguation of Scarabaeoids: 1 14 19 21 25 21 Disambiguation of 'Blatta orientalis': 0 69 11 8 6 6 Disambiguation of 'oriental cockroach': 0 56 9 11 13 11
  3. (New Zealand) A similar roach native to New Zealand, of species Maoriblatta novaeseelandiae (syn. Platyzosteria novaeseelandia), Maori bug. Tags: New-Zealand Synonyms (Maoriblatta novaeseelandiae): Maori bug Translations (Maori bug): kekerengu (Maori)
    Sense id: en-black_beetle-en-noun-V1MGz1BG Categories (other): New Zealand English, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Maori translations, Beetles, Scarabaeoids Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 21 14 22 22 22 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 1 22 18 19 20 19 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 1 21 18 20 20 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 2 13 22 19 24 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 2 11 37 19 16 16 Disambiguation of Beetles: 4 13 16 22 22 22 Disambiguation of Scarabaeoids: 1 14 19 21 25 21 Disambiguation of 'Maoriblatta novaeseelandiae': 0 17 53 10 11 10 Disambiguation of 'Maori bug': 0 4 65 18 6 6
  4. A common name for many species of beetle that are black in color, including:
    An African black beetle (Heteronychus arator), a serious pest of grasses in New Zealand.
    Sense id: en-black_beetle-en-noun-L-m75w-0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Japanese translations, Beetles, Scarabaeoids Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 21 14 22 22 22 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 1 22 18 19 20 19 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 1 21 18 20 20 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 2 13 22 19 24 19 Disambiguation of Beetles: 4 13 16 22 22 22 Disambiguation of Scarabaeoids: 1 14 19 21 25 21
  5. A common name for many species of beetle that are black in color, including:
    An Asiatic rhinoceros beetle (Oryctes rhinoceros), a pest of palm trees in tropical Asia.
    Sense id: en-black_beetle-en-noun-odcF4YLU Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with German translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Adephagan beetles, Beetles, Scarabaeoids Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 21 14 22 22 22 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 2 14 12 17 38 17 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 1 22 18 19 20 19 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 1 21 18 20 20 20 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 2 14 17 20 28 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 2 13 22 19 24 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 2 13 17 20 28 20 Disambiguation of Adephagan beetles: 4 12 15 21 28 21 Disambiguation of Beetles: 4 13 16 22 22 22 Disambiguation of Scarabaeoids: 1 14 19 21 25 21
  6. A common name for many species of beetle that are black in color, including:
    A member of the European species Pterostichus nigrita (syn. Feronia nigrita).
    Sense id: en-black_beetle-en-noun-CdoP~hae Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Japanese translations, Beetles, Scarabaeoids Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 21 14 22 22 22 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 1 22 18 19 20 19 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 1 21 18 20 20 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 2 13 22 19 24 19 Disambiguation of Beetles: 4 13 16 22 22 22 Disambiguation of Scarabaeoids: 1 14 19 21 25 21
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: Darwin's black beetle (taxonomic: Lissopterus quadrinotatus), African black beetle (taxonomic: Heteronychus arator) Related terms: oriental beetle, Blitopertha orientalis (alt: syn. Anomala orientalis)

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-05-29 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-20 using wiktextract (e937b02 and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.