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Suture :: Suture (n.) The line at which the elytra of a beetle meet and are sometimes confluent.

Beetle :: Beetle (v. t.) A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; -- called also beetling machine..

Beetlestock :: Beetlestock (n.) The handle of a beetle.

Dorbeetle :: Dorbeetle (n.) See 1st Dor.

Cockchafer :: Cockchafer (n.) A beetle of the genus Melolontha (esp. M. vulgaris) and allied genera; -- called also May bug, chafer, or dorbeetle..

Rutilian :: Rutilian (n.) Any species of lamellicorn beetles belonging to Rutila and allied genera, as the spotted grapevine beetle (Pelidnota punctata)..

Doryphora :: Doryphora (n.) A genus of plant-eating beetles, including the potato beetle. See Potato beetle..

Ladybird :: Ladybird (n.) Any one of numerous species of small beetles of the genus Coccinella and allied genera (family Coccinellidae); -- called also ladybug, ladyclock, lady cow, lady fly, and lady beetle. Coccinella seplempunctata in one of the common European species. See Coccinella..

Sharded :: Sharded (a.) Having elytra, as a beetle..

Melolonthidian :: Melolonthidian (n.) A beetle of the genus Melolontha, and allied genera. See May beetle, under May..

Beetle :: Beetle (v. t.) A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc..

Wolf :: Wolf (a.) One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths; as, the bee wolf..

Longipalp :: Longipalp (n.) One of a tribe of beetles, having long maxillary palpi..

Beetle Brow :: Beetle brow () An overhanging brow.

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

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

Subumbonal :: Subulipalp (n.) One of a group of carabid beetles having slender palpi.

Weevil :: Weevil (n.) Any one of numerous species of snout beetles, or Rhynchophora, in which the head is elongated and usually curved downward. Many of the species are very injurious to cultivated plants. The larvae of some of the species live in nuts, fruit, and grain by eating out the interior, as the plum weevil, or curculio, the nut weevils, and the grain weevil (see under Plum, Nut, and Grain). The larvae of other species bore under the bark and into the pith of trees and various other plants, as th

Geodephagous :: Geodephagous (a.) Living in the earth; -- applied to the ground beetles.

Carabid :: Carabid (n.) One of the Carabidae, a family of active insectivorous beetles..

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