Any of numerous species of insect in the order Coleoptera characterized by a pair of hard, shell-like front wings which cover and protect a pair of rear wings when at rest
A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; called also beetling machine
Any of numerous species of insect in the order Coleoptera characterized by a pair of hard, shell-like, front wings which cover and protect a pair of rear wings when at rest
{f} go somewhere quickly; move like a beetle, move forward, make one's way; scurry (British usage); ram or crush a 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
be suspended over or hang over; "This huge rock beetles over the edge of the town"
A beetle is an insect with a hard covering to its body. Bug a small car made by Volkswagen which has a high, rounded top. It was first produced in the 1930s. to go somewhere quickly and leaning forward = scurry. Any of at least 250,000 species of insects constituting the order Coleoptera (the largest order in the animal kingdom), characterized by special forewings, called elytra, which are modified into hardened covers over a second pair of functional wings. Beetles occur in almost all environments except Antarctica and the peaks of the highest mountains. Temperate zones have fewer beetle species than the tropics but in greater numbers. The smallest species are less than 0.04 in. (1 mm) long; the largest can exceed 8 in. (20 cm). Most beetles eat either other animals or plants; some eat decaying matter. Some species destroy crops, timber, and textiles and spread parasitic worms and diseases. Others are valuable predators of insect pests. Some beetles are known by other common names (e.g., borer, chafer, curculio, firefly, weevil). Beetles are preyed on by other insects and by bats, swifts, and frogs. ladybird beetle snout beetle bark beetle blister beetle Colorado potato beetle cucumber beetle deathwatch beetle dermestid beetle dung beetle flea beetle Japanese beetle June beetle May beetle potato beetle scarab beetle tiger beetle