English

flat-faced longhorn

From flat + faced + longhorn (“longhorn beetle”).

A compound of flat + faced + longhorn ‘longhorn beetle’

Proto-Germanic *flataz ‘flat’

Old Norse flatr ‘flat, level’

Middle English flat ‘level’

English flat

Today it means

noun Any beetle of the subfamily Lamiinae.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / flat-faced longhorn