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Dung Beetle

Definition: Dung Beetle

Dung Beetle

Noun

1. Any of numerous beetles that roll balls of dung on which they feed and in which they lay eggs.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Crosswords: Dung Beetle

English words defined with "dung beetle": dorbeetleScarn bee. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Dung Beetle

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Modern Translation: Dung Beetle

Language Translations for "dung beetle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

торен бръмбар (dor-beetle). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

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German

  

mistkäfer. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

ganajtúró. (various references)

   

Manx

  

deyll eoylley. (various references)

   

Maya

  

kuklin. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ungday eetlebay

   

Romanian

  

gândac de bãlegar. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

навозный жук (dung-beetle). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

balegar (dor, dor-beetle, dor-bug, dorr). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

dyngbagge, bladhorning. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

bokböceği (dor, dorbeetle, scarab). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

tomazak. (various references)

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Misspellings: Dung Beetle

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"Dung Beetle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dung bettle. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Dung Beetle

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-d-e-e-e-g-l-n-t-u"

-2 letters: unbelted.

-3 letters: beetled, blunged, blunted, bungled, genteel, gentled, gleeted.

-4 letters: beetle, belted, bendee, blende, blunge, budget, bugled, bulged, bundle, bunged, bungee, bungle, bunted, butene, butled, delete, deluge, dengue, eluent, eluted, englut, gentle, gluten, gulden, legend, lunged, lungee, lunted, nebule, needle, teledu, unbelt.

-5 letters: bedel, beget, begun, betel, bleed, blend, blent, blued, bluet, blunt, budge.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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