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Meaning of "elaterid" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ELATERID

From New Latin Elateridae, from elater.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ELATERID

elaterid  [ɪˈlætərɪd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ELATERID

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Elaterid can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES ELATERID MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of elaterid in the English dictionary

The definition of elaterid in the dictionary is any of the beetles constituting the widely distributed family Elateridae. The group includes the wireworms and certain fireflies. Other definition of elaterid is of, relating to, or belonging to the family Elateridae.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ELATERID


acarid
ˈækərɪd
ascarid
ˈæskərɪd
asterid
ˈæstərɪd
epeirid
ɛˈpaɪərɪd
ephemerid
ɪˈfɛmərɪd
eurypterid
jʊˈrɪptərɪd
galleried
ˈɡælərɪd
liveried
ˈlɪvərɪd
lurid
ˈlʊərɪd
nectaried
ˈnektərɪd
pilloried
ˈpɪlərɪd
salaried
ˈsælərɪd
sigillarid
sɪˈdʒɪlərɪd
stellerid
ˈstɛlərɪd
traceried
ˈtreɪsərɪd
unsalaried
ʌnˈsælərɪd
unvaried
ʌnˈvɛərɪd
unwearied
ʌnˈwɪərɪd
varied
ˈvɛərɪd
wearied
ˈwɪərɪd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ELATERID

elasticise
elasticity
elasticize
elasticness
elastin
elastomer
elastomeric
Elastoplast
Elat
elate
elated
elatedly
elatedness
elater
elaterin
elaterite
elaterium
Elath
elation
elative

WORDS THAT END LIKE ELATERID

antherid
arid
chimerid
clerid
florid
grid
horrid
hybrid
jerid
Madrid
murid
national grid
off-grid
off the grid
pierid
rid
starting grid
the grid
torrid
Wilfrid

Synonyms and antonyms of elaterid in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «elaterid» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ELATERID

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The translations of elaterid from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «elaterid» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

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510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

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380 millions of speakers
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elaterid
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

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278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

elaterid
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Translator English - Bengali

elaterid
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Translator English - French

elaterid
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Elaterid
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

elaterid
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

elaterid
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

elaterid
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Elaterid
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

elaterid
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

elaterid
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

एलिटिड
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

elaterid
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

elaterid
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

elaterid
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

elaterid
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

elaterid
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

elaterid
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

elaterid
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

elaterid
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

elaterid
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of elaterid

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ELATERID»

The term «elaterid» is used very little and occupies the 186.019 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ELATERID» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about elaterid

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ELATERID»

Discover the use of elaterid in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to elaterid and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Insect Mythology
A third beetle of mythological importance was the elaterid beetle, commonly called the click beetle. The elaterid beetle has been described from three different artifacts, two carved reliefs from the first dynasty (ca. 3000 BC.) and a necklace of ...
Gene Kritsky, Ron H. Cherry, 2000
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Volume 2: Morphology and Systematics (Elateroidea, ...
The vast majority of elaterid genera appear to form a monophyletic group, but the outer limits of Elateridae have still not been conclusively defined, despite the efforts of various authors to establish a higher classifica— tion for the family.
Richard A.B. Leschen, Rolf G. Beutel, John F. Lawrence, 2010
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New Zealand Journal of Zoology
Elaterid beetles occurred in the late November and December pitfall samples only, which suggests an emergence of adults followed by a short period of activity at the litter surface. Roebuck et al. (1947) found that three species of grassland ...
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Insect Pests of Potato: Global Perspectives on Biology and ...
... controlling wireworms by pre-emptively controlling the click beetle stage, which will be discussed below. Other Click Beetle Trapping Systems Pitfall traps have been used to collect elaterid adults, primarily for species survey purposes (e.g., ...
Andrei Alyokhin, Charles Vincent, Philippe Giordanengo, 2012
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The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder
With even my skimpy entomological knowledge I can place it unmistakably as an elaterid—more commonly, a click beetle—by the body shape, the false eyespots on its thorax, and the snapping hinge between thorax and abdomen, which is ...
David Quammen, 2012
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Imms' General Textbook of Entomology: Volume 1: Structure, ...
A large number of Elaterid larvae have been described by Beling (1883), Henriksen (191 1), Hyslop (1917), Gueniat (1935) and van Emden (1945): for the metamorphosis of Agriotes obscurus see Ford (1917) and Rymer Roberts (1919- 22).
Owain Westmacott Richards, Richard Gareth Davies, 1979
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American Beetles: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through ...
Larvae of the elaterid beetles of the tribe Lepturoidini (Coleoptera: Elateridae) . Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collection, 111: 1-246. GRAVES, H.W. 1 938. A Hawaiian elaterid beetle introduced into California. Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 1 4 : 91 .
Ross H. Arnett, JR, Michael C. Thomas, Paul E. Skelley, 2002
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Click Beetles: Genera of the Australian Elateridae (Coleoptera)
Larvae of Hawaiian elaterid beetles. Proceedings ofthe Hawaiian Entomological Society10: 275–279. Van Zwaluwenburg, R.H. (1947). Some elaterid beetles from Australia and New Guinea. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological ...
AA Calder, 1996
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Technical Bulletin
9, B; 10, A; 12, B), an elaterid largely restricted in its distribution to western Ventura County, hut which also occurs in Los Angeles County, in the vicinity of LI Monte. The Figure 11. — Pupa of Limonius californicus, ventral and dorsal views.
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New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research
At first harvest high elaterid larval populations, predominantly Conoderus exsul Sharp and C. striatus Macleary and, to a lesser extent, Agrypnus variabilis ( Candeze), were recovered from soil cores taken from the untreated plots (37/m2),  ...

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ELATERID»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term elaterid is used in the context of the following news items.
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Beetle Larvae Cookies and Other Bug Delicacies in Costa Rica
The inventors of these elaterid-based delicacy admitted that their product is clearly destined for marketing to curious tourists with a sense of ... «The Costa Rica Star, Jul 13»
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Friday Finds, or what happened in Lawrence yesterday?
i-3c0cd32dc635e12e9219af37f9436870-Elaterid.jpg My next encounter was with a click beetle (family Elateridae). Like all beetles, the ... «ScienceBlogs, May 07»

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