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Adjective beetle has 1 sense
- beetle, beetling - jutting or overhanging; "beetle brows"
Antonym: intrusive (indirect, via protrusive)
Noun beetle has 2 senses
- beetle - insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings
--1 is a kind of insect
--1 is a member of Coleoptera, order Coleoptera
--1 has particulars: | | 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 |
- mallet, beetle - 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
--2 is a kind of hammer
--2 has particulars: carpenter's mallet; gavel
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