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Deathwatch :: Deathwatch (n.) A small beetle (Anobium tessellatum and other allied species). By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death..

Cucujo :: Cucujo (n.) The fire beetle of Mexico and the West Indies.

Beetle :: Beetle (v. t.) To beat with a heavy mallet.

Mall :: Mall (n.) A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul.

Pruner :: Pruner (n.) Any one of several species of beetles whose larvae gnaw the branches of trees so as to cause them to fall, especially the American oak pruner (Asemum moestum), whose larva eats the pith of oak branches, and when mature gnaws a circular furrow on the inside nearly to the bark. When the branches fall each contains a pupa..

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

Fly-case :: Fly-case (n.) The covering of an insect, esp. the elytra of beetles..

Water Tiger :: Water tiger () A diving, or water, beetle, especially the larva of a water beetle. See Illust. b of Water beetle..

Meloe :: Meloe () A genus of beetles without wings, but having short oval elytra; the oil beetles. These beetles are sometimes used instead of cantharides for raising blisters. See Oil beetle, under Oil..

Fidia :: Fidia (n.) A genus of small beetles, of which one species (the grapevine Fidia, F. longipes) is very injurious to vines in America..

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

Bookworm :: Bookworm (n.) Any larva of a beetle or moth, which is injurious to books. Many species are known..

Tumbledung :: Tumbledung (n.) Any one of numerous species of scaraboid beetles belonging to Scarabaeus, Copris, Phanaeus, and allied genera. The female lays her eggs in a globular mass of dung which she rolls by means of her hind legs to a burrow excavated in the earth in which she buries it..

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

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

Warble :: Warble (n.) A small tumor produced by the larvae of the gadfly in the backs of horses, cattle, etc. Called also warblet, warbeetle, warnles..

Elytroid :: Elytroid (a.) Resembling a beetle's wing case.

Chafer :: Chafer (n.) A kind of beetle; the cockchafer. The name is also applied to other species; as, the rose chafer..

Brachyptera :: Brachyptera (n. pl.) A group of Coleoptera having short wings; the rove beetles.

Maul :: Maul (n.) A heavy wooden hammer or beetle.

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