calosoma

English Thesaurus

1. any beetle of the genus Calosoma (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	carabid beetle, ground beetle,
definition	:	predacious shining black or metallic terrestrial beetle that destroys many injurious insects (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	calosoma scrutator, searcher, searcher beetle,
definition	:	large metallic blue-green beetle that preys on caterpillars; found in North America (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	genus calosoma,
definition	:	genus of large predaceous ground beetles that feed on injurious caterpillars (noun.animal)