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tiger beetle en · NOUN

Meanings

1. Any active, carnivorous beetle (species) of the subfamily Cicindelinae.
   • I was myself very successful in one beautiful group of insects, the tiger-beetles, which seem more abundant and varied here than anywhere else in the Archipelago. I first met with them on a cutting in the road, where a hard clayey bank was partially overgrown with mosses and small ferns. 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 409:
   • I also noticed a couple of tiger beetle larval burrows in the hard-packed sandy soil and found a long, thin plant stem to “fish” the larvae out. 2022 May 14, Ted C. MacRae, Cupressaceae:
   • Most tiger beetle larvae tunnel in the soil.

Forms

Deriveds

Carolina metallic tiger beetle

Translations (25)

mi moeone (any active, carnivorous beetle of the subfamily Cicindelinae) · it cicindela (any active, carnivorous beetle of the subfamily Cicindelinae) · pt besouro-tigre (any active, carnivorous beetle of the subfamily Cicindelinae) · ar خُنْفُسَاء نَمِرِيَّة (any active, carnivorous beetle of the subfamily Cicindelinae) · tr kaplan böcek (any active, carnivorous beetle of the subfamily Cicindelinae) · cmn 虎甲蟲 /虎甲虫 (any active, carnivorous beetle of the subfamily Cicindelinae) · zh 虎甲 (any active, carnivorous beetle of the subfamily Cicindelinae) · ms kumbang harimau (any active, carnivorous beetle of the subfamily Cicindelinae) · tr uyuz sineği (any active, carnivorous beetle of the subfamily Cicindelinae) · ga ciaróg thíograch (any active, carnivorous beetle of the subfamily Cicindelinae) · pt besouro-assassino (any active, carnivorous beetle of the subfamily Cicindelinae) · ru жук-скаку́н (any active, carnivorous beetle of the subfamily Cicindelinae) · fi hietakiitäjäinen (any active, carnivorous beetle of the subfamily Cicindelinae) · bg ти́гров бръ́мбар (any active, carnivorous beetle of the subfamily Cicindelinae) · ja ハンミョウ (any active, carnivorous beetle of the subfamily Cicindelinae) · id kumbang macan (any active, carnivorous beetle of the subfamily Cicindelinae) · mi kūī (any active, carnivorous beetle of the subfamily Cicindelinae) · nv chʼosh bijáád nineezí (any active, carnivorous beetle of the subfamily Cicindelinae) · ja 斑猫 (any active, carnivorous beetle of the subfamily Cicindelinae) · pl trzyszcz (any active, carnivorous beetle of the subfamily Cicindelinae) · fr cicindèle (any active, carnivorous beetle of the subfamily Cicindelinae) · mi muremure (any active, carnivorous beetle of the subfamily Cicindelinae) · es escarabajo tigre (any active, carnivorous beetle of the subfamily Cicindelinae) · de Sandlaufkäfer (any active, carnivorous beetle of the subfamily Cicindelinae) · pt tigre-veloz (any active, carnivorous beetle of the subfamily Cicindelinae)