Word.ws English Dictionary

carabidology

carabidology noun: the scientific study of carabid or ground beetles (Carabidae).

Noun

carabidology (uncountable)

  1. The scientific study of carabid or ground beetles (Carabidae).
    • The SYSTEMATIC LIST and the simultaneously published NOMINA CARABIDARUM volume make available in hard copy the essential nomenclatural data contained in a general computerized database of carabidology which is under preparation by the author.1998, Wolfgang Lorenz, Systematic List of Extant Ground Beetles of the World, page 1

Questions about carabidology

What does carabidology mean?
Carabidology means the scientific study of carabid or ground beetles (Carabidae).
What part of speech is carabidology?
Carabidology is a noun.

Words near carabidology in the dictionary

  1. carabidan
  2. carabidans
  3. carabideous
  4. carabidologist
  5. carabidologists
  6. carabidology
  7. carabids
  8. carabin
  9. carabine
  10. carabined
  11. carabineer

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: carabidology (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “carabidology.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/carabidology. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.