
• (n.) A genus of ground beetles, including numerous species. They devour many injurious insects.
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Car'a·bus noun [ New Latin , from Greek ... a horned beetle.]
(Zoology) A genus of ground beetles, including numerous species. They devour many injurious insects.
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Carabus is Latin for a small boat, a coracle
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Carabus is a genus of large and flightless beetles of the family Carabidae ranging from 30 to 40 mm in length, and found all over Europe where they live for between two and three years. In most species the membranous hindwings have regressed, and they have an abdominal gland from which they can release or squirt a malodorous defensive secretion. Th...
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