Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A small brown or black beetle (Tenebroides mauritanicus) that is a pest of stored grain.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A French name of the larva of a beetle of the family Trogositidæ, the Trogosita mauritanica.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French, from Provençal cadello, from Latin catella, feminine of catellus, puppy, from catulus, the young of animals; see kat- in Indo-European roots.]

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