Snapping Beetle

  

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Snapping Beetle

Definition: Snapping Beetle

Snapping Beetle

Noun

1. Able to right itself when on its back by flipping into the air with a clicking sound.

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


Synonyms: Snapping Beetle

Synonyms: click beetle (n), skipjack (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Snapping Beetle

English words defined with "snapping beetle": Snap beetle, Snap bug, Spring beetle. (references)

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Image Slideshow: Snapping Beetle

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Modern Translation: Snapping Beetle

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

Hungarian

  

pattanóbogár (click beetle, elater, skipjack, snapping jack). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

米搗き飛蝗 (obsequious person). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

"めつきばった (obsequious person). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

appingsnay eetlebay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Snapping Beetle

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-e-g-i-l-n-n-p-p-s-t"

-4 letters: bengalines, eglantines, peneplains, peneplanes, pentangles, septennial, steepening.

-5 letters: absenting, anglesite, antigenes, antisleep, bantlings, beleaping, bengaline, biennales, eglantine, entangles, galenites, gantlines, gelatines, inelegant, panelings, penalties, peneplain, peneplane, pentangle, pieplants, plantings, plebeians, tangibles, tapelines, teaseling.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Snapping Beetle


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 6E 61 70 70 69 6E 67      42 65 65 74 6C 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101110 01100001 01110000 01110000 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01000010 01100101 01100101 01110100 01101100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#110 &#97 &#112 &#112 &#105 &#110 &#103 &#32 &#66 &#101 &#101 &#116 &#108 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006E 0061 0070 0070 0069 006E 0067      0042 0065 0065 0074 006C 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53806782827580732367171867871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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