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Scarabaeidae

noun

scarab or dung beetles

• Member Holonyms: ↑Lamellicornia, ↑superfamily Lamellicornia

• Member Meronyms:

↑scarabaeid beetle, ↑scarabaeid, ↑scarabaean, ↑genus Scarabaeus, ↑Popillia, ↑genus Popillia, ↑Anomala, ↑genus Anomala, ↑Melolonthidae, ↑subfamily Melolonthidae, ↑Cetoniidae, ↑subfamily Cetoniidae

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\\-ēəˌdē\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Scarabaeus, type genus + -idae

: a family of stout-bodied lamellicorn beetles now usually restricted to beetles (as the tumblebugs or scarabaeus) of subsocial habits that feed on dung but sometimes especially formerly extended to include the plant-feeding rhinoceros beetles, flower beetles, leaf chafers and others that are usually placed in separate families — compare cetoniidae, dung beetle, melolonthidae, rutelinidae

Useful english dictionary. 2012.