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beetle
1. insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings (Freq. 1)
• Hypernyms:
insect
• Hyponyms:
tiger beetle, ladybug, ladybeetle, lady beetle, ladybird,
ladybird beetle, ground beetle, carabid beetle, firefly, lightning bug, long-horned beetle,
longicorn, longicorn beetle, leaf beetle, chrysomelid, carpet beetle, carpet bug,
clerid beetle, clerid, lamellicorn beetle, elaterid beetle, elater, elaterid,
water beetle, whirligig beetle, deathwatch beetle, deathwatch, Xestobium rufovillosum, weevil,
blister beetle, meloid, bark beetle, rove beetle, Asian longhorned beetle, Anoplophora glabripennis
• Member Holonyms:
Coleoptera, order Coleoptera
2. 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
• Syn:
mallet
• Hypernyms:
hammer
• Hyponyms:
carpenter's mallet, gavel
1. be suspended over or hang over
- This huge rock beetles over the edge of the town
• Syn:
overhang
• Derivationally related forms:
overhang (for: overhang)
• Hypernyms:
hang
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s something
2. fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle
- He beetled up the staircase
- They beetled off home
• Hypernyms:
travel, go, move, locomote
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s PP
3. beat with a beetle
• Hypernyms:
beat
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
jutting or overhanging
- beetle brows
• Syn:
beetling
• Similar to:
protrusive
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