fiddle beetle
English
editEtymology
editSo called from its shape.
Noun
editfiddle beetle (plural fiddle beetles)
- A Japanese carabid beetle (Carabus blaptoides).
- Any of certain species of genus Mormolyce.
References
edit- “fiddle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.