grain beetle
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.44 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "1987, Gennadiĭ Alekseevich Zakladnoĭ, Vera Flegontovna Ratanova, Stored Grain Pests and Their Control, Oxonian Press, page 41, For instance, the saw-toothed grain beetle is commonly found, and prefers to develop, in dry fruits and naturally, its occurrence is mainly limited to fruit growing regions. The rusty grain beetle prefers crushed grain and therefore, usually inhabits grain mills and is widely distributed."
- "Taylor's power law overestimated the variance for the flat grain beetle and squarenosed fungus beetle (Lathridius minutus [L.]), and underestimated the variance for foreign grain beetle, larger black flour beetle, rusty grain beetle, and hairy fungus beetle."
- "Adults (0.3 cm in length) of the sawtoothed grain beetle and the merchant grain beetle are very similar in appearance to each other but can be easily distinguished from other food pest insects by the six sawlike projections on each side of the prothorax."
Inflected Forms
Phrases
flat grain beetle
foreign grain beetle
merchant grain beetle
rusty grain beetle
saw-toothed grain beetle
square-necked grain beetle
flour beetle