"ground beetle" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: ground beetles [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} ground beetle (plural ground beetles)
  1. Any of a large cosmopolitan family of beetles, Carabidae. Categories (lifeform): Adephagan beetles Synonyms: carabid Translations (any carabid beetle): жужаль (žužalʹ) [masculine] (Belarusian), 步行蟲 (Chinese Mandarin), 步行虫 (bùxíngchóng) (Chinese Mandarin), 步甲 (bùjiǎ) (Chinese Mandarin), střevlík [masculine] (Czech), løbebille [common-gender] (Danish), jooksiklane (Estonian), maakiitäjäinen (Finnish), carabe (French), Laufkäfer [masculine] (German), karabo (Ido), kutubenben (Kabuverdianu), carabídeo [masculine] (Portuguese), besouro-carabídeo [masculine] (Portuguese), жу́желица (žúželica) [feminine] (Russian), bystruška [feminine] (Slovak), jordlöpare [common-gender] (Swedish), sumbang-tae (Tagalog)
    Sense id: en-ground_beetle-en-noun-d1E4mF1z Disambiguation of Adephagan beetles: 78 22 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 78 22 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 85 15 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 82 18 Disambiguation of 'any carabid beetle': 84 16
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ground, beetle. Derived forms: blue ground beetle
    Sense id: en-ground_beetle-en-noun-TESKfyOn

Inflected forms

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