Carabid: Definition and part of speech

Carabid

  1. n. One of the Carabidae, a family of active insectivorous beetles.
  2. a. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the genus Carbus or family Carabidae.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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