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Definition of Bombardier beetle
1. Noun. Beetle that ejects audibly a pungent vapor when disturbed.
Definition of Bombardier beetle
1. Noun. A beetle whose defence mechanism enables it to eject a hot aqueous mixture of chemicals at predators. They come from a number of subfamilies: Carabinae (e.g., ''Brachinus crepitans''), Metriinae (e.g., ''Stenaptinus insignis'') and Paussinae (e.g., ''Goniotropis nicaraguensis''). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bombardier Beetle
Literary usage of Bombardier beetle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life-zone Indicators in California by Harvey Monroe Hall, Marcos Sastre, William Hamilton Gibson, Joseph Grinnell (1919)
"THE BOMBARDIER-BEETLE fune gth HE familiar counsel to the aspirant for success
to "leave no stone unturned" is said to date back to the Delphic oracle, ..."
2. Human physiology the basis of sanitary and social science by Thomas Low Nichols (1872)
"... of Insect Life—Insect Transformations—Flies—bombardier beetle—Honey Bee—Ants—Fire
Flies— Spiders—Fishes—Snails—The Rattlesnake—Birds, their Forms and ..."
3. London Society edited by James Hogg, Florence Marryat (1878)
"A little further on a bombardier beetle attracted my attention. ... The position
of the bombardier beetle, taken, so to speak, in the very act of murder, ..."
4. Our common insects: First Steps to Entomology by E. W. Cox (1864)
"The little bombardier beetle is a common victim of the blue beetle, which, like
most of its family, has the power of emitting an offensive odour when ..."
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