- belonging or pertaining to the insect order Dermaptera, comprising the earwigs.
- any of numerous brown to black, small to medium-sized nocturnal insects of the order Dermaptera, widely distributed in warm, moist areas, characterized by a slender, elongated, flattened body with pincerlike appendages at the tail end of the abdomen.
- any insect of the order Dermaptera, the earwigs
- of, relating to, or belonging to this order
