carabid

noun

carabid

noun

Southern-US /ˈkeɹ.ɹə.bɪd/

Etymology Borrowed from Translingual Carabidae.

1

Any of the family Carabidae, the ground beetles.

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).2010, Comprehensive Natural Products II: Chemistry and Biology, page 392:

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