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Commander :: Commander (n.) A heavy beetle or wooden mallet, used in paving, in sail lofts, etc..

Complicant :: Complicant (a.) Overlapping, as the elytra of certain beetles..

Dorr :: Dorr (n.) The dorbeetle; also, a drone or an idler. See 1st Dor..

Bug :: Bug (n.) One of various species of Coleoptera; as, the ladybug; potato bug, etc.; loosely, any beetle..

Cocktail :: Cocktail (n.) A species of rove beetle; -- so called from its habit of elevating the tail.

Sheath-winged :: Sheath-winged (a.) Having elytra, or wing cases, as a beetle..

Carabus :: Carabus (n.) A genus of ground beetles, including numerous species. They devour many injurious insects..

Malacoderm :: Malacoderm (n.) One of a tribe of beetles (Malacodermata), with a soft and flexible body, as the fireflies..

Coprophagan :: Coprophagan (n.) A kind of beetle which feeds upon dung.

Dorhawk :: Dorhawk (n.) The European goatsucker; -- so called because it eats the dor beetle. See Goatsucker.

Palpator :: Palpator (n.) One of a family of clavicorn beetles, including those which have very long maxillary palpi..

Longhorn :: Longhorn (n.) A long-horned animal, as a cow, goat, or beetle. See Long-horned..

Trachelidan :: Trachelidan (n.) Any one of a tribe of beetles (Trachelides) which have the head supported on a pedicel. The oil beetles and the Cantharides are examples.

Beetlehead :: Beetlehead (n.) The black-bellied plover, or bullhead (Squatarola helvetica). See Plover..

Plant-eating :: Plant-eating (a.) Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle..

Flea-beetle :: Flea-beetle (n.) A small beetle of the family Halticidae, of many species. They have strong posterior legs and leap like fleas. The turnip flea-beetle (Phyllotreta vittata) and that of the grapevine (Graptodera chalybea) are common injurious species..

Gravedigger :: Gravedigger (n.) See Burying beetle, under Bury, v. t..

Cantharis :: Cantharis (n.) A beetle (Lytta, / Cantharis, vesicatoria), havin1g an elongated cylindrical body of a brilliant green color, and a nauseous odor; the blister fly or blister beetle, of the apothecary; -- also called Spanish fly. Many other species of Lytta, used for the same purpose, take the same name. See Blister beetle, under Blister. The plural form in usually applied to the dried insects used in medicine..

Necrophagan :: Necrophagan (n.) Any species of a tribe (Necrophaga) of beetles which, in the larval state, feed on carrion; a burying beetle..

Scarabee :: Scarabee (n.) Any one of numerous species of lamellicorn beetles of the genus Scarabaeus, or family Scarabaeidae, especially the sacred, or Egyptian, species (Scarabaeus sacer, and S. Egyptiorum)..

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