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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

(Zool.)

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the genus

Carabus

or family

Carabidae

–

Noun.

One of the

Carabidae

, a family of active insectivorous beetles.

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).

ground beetle — see ground beetle