beetle
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Noun (2)beetles
- insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wingsType of insectKinds leaf beetle, clerid beetle, weevil, whirligig beetle, rove beetle, carpet beetle, elaterid beetle, firefly, lamellicorn beetle, bark beetle +8 moreMember of Coleoptera, order Coleoptera
- 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 smoothingSynonyms: malletType of hammerKinds gavel, carpenter's mallet
Verb (3)beetles, beetled, beetling
Adjective (1)
- jutting or overhanging“beetle brows”Synonyms: beetlingOpposite intrusiveSimilar protrusive
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Translations
Noun insect
- Spanish
- escarabajo
- French
- scarabée
- German
- Käfer
- Italian
- coleottero
- Portuguese
- besouro
- Turkish
- kınkanatlı böcek
- Russian
- жук žuk
- Arabic
- خُنْفُسَاء ḵunfusāʔ
- Chinese
- 甲虫 jiǎchóng
- Japanese
- 甲虫 kōchū
33 more languages
- Dutch
- kever
- Polish
- chrząszcz
- Swedish
- skalbagge
- Greek
- σκαθάρι skathári
- Korean
- 딱정벌레 ttakjeongbeolle
- Indonesian
- kumbang
- Vietnamese
- bọ cánh cứng
- Hungarian
- bogár
- Portuguese (PT)
- escaravelho
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 甲蟲 jiǎchóng
- Albanian
- brumbull
- Breton
- c'hwil
- Catalan
- escarabat
- Czech
- brouk
- Danish
- bille
- Esperanto
- skarabo
- Estonian
- mardikas
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- kovakuoriainen
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- ხოჭო xoč̣o
- Hebrew
- חִפּוּשִׁית khipushít
- Icelandic
- bjalla
- Latvian
- vabole
- Lithuanian
- vabalas
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- borera
- Norwegian
- bille
- Romanian
- gândac
- Scottish Gaelic
- daol
- Serbo-Croatian
- tvrdokrilac
- Slovak
- chrobák
- Slovenian
- hrošč
- Swahili
- mbawakavu
- Welsh
- chwilen
- Yiddish
- דזשוכע dzhukhe
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. betel, AS. bītl, mallet, hammer, fr. beátan to beat. See Beat, transitive verb
1. A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
2. A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; — called also beetling machine. Knight, Edward Henry
1. To beat with a heavy mallet.
2. To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine; as, to beetle cotton goods.
Origin: OE. bityl, bittle, AS. bītel, fr. bītan to bite. See Bite, transitive verb
Any insect of the order Coleoptera, having four wings, the outer pair being stiff cases for covering the others when they are folded up. See Coleoptera.
Beetle mite Zoology, one of many species of mites, of the family Oribatidæ, parasitic on beetles. — Black beetle, the common large black cockroach (Blatta orientalis).
Origin: See Beetlebrowed.
To extend over and beyond the base or support; to overhang; to jut.
To the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea.— William Shakespeare
Each beetling rampart, and each tower sublime.— William Wordsworth
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54