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Definition of Beetle
1. Adjective. Jutting or overhanging. "Beetle brows"
2. Verb. Be suspended over or hang over. "This huge rock beetles over the edge of the town"
3. Noun. Insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings.
Group relationships: Coleoptera, Order Coleoptera
Specialized synonyms: Tiger Beetle, Lady Beetle, Ladybeetle, Ladybird, Ladybird Beetle, Ladybug, Carabid Beetle, Ground Beetle, Firefly, Lightning Bug, Long-horned Beetle, Longicorn, Longicorn Beetle, Chrysomelid, Leaf Beetle, Carpet Beetle, Carpet Bug, Clerid, Clerid Beetle, Lamellicorn Beetle, Elater, Elaterid, Elaterid Beetle, Water Beetle, Whirligig Beetle, Deathwatch, Deathwatch Beetle, Xestobium Rufovillosum, Weevil, Blister Beetle, Meloid, Bark Beetle, Rove Beetle, Anoplophora Glabripennis, Asian Longhorned Beetle
4. Verb. Fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle. "They beetled off home"
5. Noun. 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.
6. Verb. Beat with a beetle.
Definition of Beetle
1. n. A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
2. v. t. To beat with a heavy mallet.
3. n. 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.
4. v. i. To extend over and beyond the base or support; to overhang; to jut.
Definition of Beetle
1. Noun. Any of numerous species of insect in the order Coleoptera characterized by a pair of hard, shell-like front wings which cover and protect a pair of rear wings when at rest. ¹
2. Verb. To move away quickly, to scurry away. ¹
3. Verb. To loom over; to extend or jut. ¹
4. Noun. A type of mallet with a large wooden head. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Beetle
1. to jut out [v -TLED, -TLING, -TLES]
Medical Definition of Beetle
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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.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beetle
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