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serica

noun

serica is a noun meaning “Any June beetle of the genus Serica” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-E-R-I-C-A, and it appears about once in every 56 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting Serica, the name). The plural of serica is sericas.

What does serica mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Any June beetle of the genus Serica.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of serica

  • sericas plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is serica?

Serica appears about once in every 56 million words in written English, the 234,209th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Serica, the name.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does serica come from?

Borrowed from translingual Serica, from Latin sērica (“garments, silk”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).