common European earwig

Definitions of common European earwig
  1. noun
    sometimes destructive to cultivated bulbs
    synonyms: Forficula auricularia
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    type of:
    earwig
    any of numerous insects of the order Dermaptera having elongate bodies and slender many-jointed antennae and a pair of large pincers at the rear of the abdomen
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