Beetle synonyms
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(Colloquial) Any small arthropod similar to an insect including spiders, centipedes, millipedes, etc
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
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
An enthusiasm or obsession:
crawling thing
An early form of badminton played with a flat wooden paddle and a shuttlecock.
Any of several scarab beetles, including the cockchafer, leaf chafer and rose chafer
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coleopter
(Zoology) One of the Coleoptera.
A large European dung beetle, Geotrupes stercorarius, that makes a droning noise while flying.
elater
An elaterid beetle.
Any of various nocturnal beetles of the family Lampyridae, characteristically having bioluminescent organs in the tip of the abdomen that produce a flashing light.
goldbug
The language spoken in Japan, believed by some scholars to be distantly related to Korean
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(North America) any beetle of the Coccinellidae family of beetles, typically having a round shape and a colorful shell.
mallet (heavy)
scarabee
(Archaic) A beetle
Any of various fishes that leap out of, or play at the surface of, the water, as the bluefish or a saury
Any of several small herbivorous beetles in the family Curculionidae belonging to the superfamily Curculionoidea.
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To furnish or load with a bag.
To ride in a balloon
To swell out; curve out; bulge
To swell, protrude, or curve outward:
Jut is defined as to stick out.
To loom over; threaten
To form a pouch or pouchlike cavity
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Project is defined as to cause an image to appear on a surface or to propose or calculate something for the future.
(Rare) To cause to bulge outward.
(Intransitive, idiomatic) To be obvious or conspicuous, in contrast to one's surroundings.
convex (related)
Curving outward, like the outer boundary of a circle or sphere.
jutting or overhanging
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A long-handled hammer with a cylindrical wooden head, used in playing croquet
A heavy metal container in which substances are heated or cooked to soften them or extract soluble elements from them
pulper
(Chiefly Brit., Informal) A handsome, attractive, or beautiful person or thing
beetles (related)
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bloody-nosed (related)
cockchafer (related)
wood-boring (related)
hoplia (related)
carabid (related)
staphylinid (related)
moth (related)
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Cryptocephalus (related)
Gastrophysa (related)
death-watch (related)
caterpillar (related)
froghopper (related)
Chrysolina (related)
craneflies (related)
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jacobaeae (related)
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.
Find another word for beetle. In this page you can discover 58 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for beetle, like: insect, scarab, tumblebug, bug, crawling thing, battledore, chafer, coleopter, -dor, drive and elater.