carabid

English

Noun

carabid (plural carabids)

Any of very many shiny black beetles of the family Carabidae
- 2010, Comprehensive Natural Products II: Chemistry and Biology‎, page 392:
  Chemically unknown tissue toxins from internal organs that may kill Pterostichus carabids are uniquely known from the milacid slug Tandonia budapestensis, which shows an aposematic coloration (orange dorsal line).

Translations

ground beetle — see ground beetle

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