car5 (kar)

[ME. *car, * carre, car. An abbreviation of carat. car-. See caer-. Car a bay a bark. See bark2. Cf. Carabici (ka-rab'i-si), n. pl. [NL., pl. of *Ca rabic us, dim. of Carabus, q. v.] In Latreille's system of cla ification, a group of carnivorous or adephagous pentamerous Coleoptera, embracing the caraboid beetles.