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beetles
 
Noun beetle has 2 senses
  1. 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
  2. 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
    Derived form: verb beetle3
Verb beetle has 3 senses
  1. overhang, beetle - be suspended over or hang over; "This huge rock beetles over the edge of the town"
    --1 is one way to hang
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s something
  2. beetle - fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle; "He beetled up the staircase"; "They beetled off home"
    --2 is one way to     travel, go, move, locomote
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s
    Somebody ----s PP
  3. beetle - beat with a beetle
    --3 is one way to     beat
    Derived form: noun beetle2
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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