Beetle Synonyms

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bug
An enthusiasm or obsession:
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insect
(Colloquial) Any small arthropod similar to an insect including spiders, centipedes, millipedes, etc
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scarab
An image of this beetle, cut from a stone or gem, often engraved with religious or historical inscriptions on the flat underside and, formerly, esp. in ancient Egypt, worn as a charm or used as a seal
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tumblebug
Any of several dung beetles that roll and bury in soil balls of dung, upon which the females deposit their eggs and in which the larvae develop
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ladybug
(North America) any beetle of the Coccinellidae family of beetles, typically having a round shape and a colorful shell.
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scarabee
(Archaic) A beetle
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mallet (heavy)
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stag
An improperly or late castrated bull or ram - called also a bull seg. See the Note under ox.
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weevil
Any of several small herbivorous beetles in the family Curculionidae belonging to the superfamily Curculionoidea.
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bag
To furnish or load with a bag.
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balloon
To ride in a balloon
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belly
To swell out; curve out; bulge
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bulge
To swell, protrude, or curve outward:
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jut
Jut is defined as to stick out.
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overhang
To loom over; threaten
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pouch
To form a pouch or pouchlike cavity
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project
Project is defined as to cause an image to appear on a surface or to propose or calculate something for the future.
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protrude
To extend from, above or beyond a surface or boundary; to bulge outward; to stick out.
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protuberate
(Rare) To cause to bulge outward.
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stand out
(Intransitive, idiomatic) To be obvious or conspicuous, in contrast to one's surroundings.
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stick out
To persist. See stick it out.
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beetling
jutting or overhanging
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mallet
A long-handled hammer with a cylindrical wooden head, used in playing croquet
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digester
A heavy metal container in which substances are heated or cooked to soften them or extract soluble elements from them
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hexapod
An arthropod with six feet; a member of subphylum Hexapoda.
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pulper
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smasher
(Chiefly Brit., Informal) A handsome, attractive, or beautiful person or thing
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crawling thing
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elater
An elaterid beetle.
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chafer
Any of several scarab beetles, including the cockchafer, leaf chafer and rose chafer
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clock
The definition of a clock is a device for measuring and showing the time of day, or a decoration on the side of a sock or stocking coming up from the ankle.
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coleopter
(Zoology) One of the Coleoptera.
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-dor
A large European dung beetle, Geotrupes stercorarius, that makes a droning noise while flying.
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drive
(Computing) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk, as a floppy drive.
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firefly
Any of various nocturnal beetles of the family Lampyridae, characteristically having bioluminescent organs in the tip of the abdomen that produce a flashing light.
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goldbug
Gold beetle
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japanese
The language spoken in Japan, believed by some scholars to be distantly related to Korean
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skipjack
Any of various fishes that leap out of, or play at the surface of, the water, as the bluefish or a saury
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macerator
One who macerates
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battledore
An early form of badminton played with a flat wooden paddle and a shuttlecock.
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craneflies
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convex
Curving outward, like the outer boundary of a circle or sphere.
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wood-boring
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hoplia
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carabid
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Beetle Sentence Examples

  • This beetle probably mimics the Australian hornet (Abispa australis).

  • The female beetle in spring-time collects dung, which she forms into a ball by continuous rolling, sometimes assisted by a companion.

  • There is also a giant nasicornous beetle.

  • There is also an American beetle, the Ambrosia beetle, belonging to the family of Swlytidae, which derives its name from its curious cultivation of a succulent fungus, called ambrosia.

  • Among these the beetle Balaninus nucum, the nut-weevil, seen on hazel and oak stems from the end of May till July, is highly destructive to the nuts.

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