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beetle::noun | Spocien Dictionary
a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | mallet |
| Type of | hammer |
| Has types | carpenter's mallet, gavel |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | beat |
beetle::noun | Spocien Dictionary
Examples of beetle
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Think of the emerald ash borer, a small Asian beetle found near Detroit in 2002.
From the dispatch.com
It begins with a female beetle, which lays hundreds of tiny eggs before it dies.
From the latimes.com
It could be the red flour beetle, one of science's most distinguished organisms.
From the sciencedaily.com
The dung beetle is the first animal proven to use the Milky Way for orientation.
From the sciencedaily.com
The destructive beetle has been identified in about 200 communities in Illinois.
From the dailyherald.com
The finger-width tunnels of the lesser stag beetle run through the powdery wood.
From the guardian.co.uk
They may also find mating partners as other individuals join them on the beetle.
From the en.wikipedia.org
It was fun to discover that a beetle had soccer ball eyes when magnified to 10x.
From the usatoday.com
All the beetle has to do is raise its warty-looking wing covers into the breeze.
From the sciencedaily.com
- Insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings
- Jutting or overhanging; "beetle brows"
- Overhang: be suspended over or hang over; "This huge rock beetles over the edge of the town"
- Fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle; "He beetled up the staircase"; "They beetled off home"
- Mallet: a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing
- Beat with a beetle
- See subgroups of the order Coleoptera
- The Beetle ASIC is an analog readout chip. It is developed for the LHCb experiment at CERN.
- The Beetle is the name of two comic book characters owned by Marvel Comics who exist within the fictional Marvel Universe. It is also the name of the three versions of high tech armor used by five separate characters.
