| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Beetle.[Websters]
2. To be humped or bruised. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have rammed, monkeyed or bucked. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To be lambed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have narked. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To have bugged. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have mauled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To have jutted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To have clubbed, batted or cudgelled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To have knocked, bludgeoned or buffeted.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb beetle.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (beetle) | 1. Be suspended over or hang over; "This huge rock beetles over the edge of the town".[Wordnet]. 2. Fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle; "He beetled up the staircase"; "They beetled off home".[Wordnet]. 3. Beat with a beetle.[Wordnet]. 4. To beat with a heavy mallet.[Websters]. 5. To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine; as, to beetle cotton goods.[Websters]. 6. To extend over and beyond the base or support; to overhang; to jut.[Websters]. 7. Base verb from the following inflections: beetling, beetled, beetles, beetler, beetlers, beetlingly and beetledly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "BEETLED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1801. (references) |
Specialty Definition: beetle
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Bible | Beetle (Heb. hargol, meaning "leaper"). Mention of it is made only in Lev. 11:22, where it is obvious the word cannot mean properly the beetle. It denotes some winged creeper with at least four feet, "which has legs above its feet, to leap withal." The description plainly points to the locust (q.v.). This has been an article of food from the earliest times in the East to the present day. The word is rendered "cricket" in the Revised Version. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. | ||
| Biology & Biotechnology | 1: An insect of the order Coleoptera - sometimes distinguished from weevil. Source: European Union. (references) | 2: Insecte que l'on peut trouver dans la farine. . . . . --an insect of the order Coleoptera - sometimes distinguished from weevil. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Industry | To produce a firm, closed, and lustrous fabric of cellulosic material, particularly linen or cotton, by subjecting the damp cloth, batched on a wooden or metal beam or roller, to repeated blows of wooden or metal hammers or fallers. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Literature | 1: "Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff, 2: Beetle (To). To overhang, to threaten, to jut over (Anglo-Saxon, beot-ian, to menace). Hence beetle or beetled brow. 3: Shakespeare: Hamlet, i. 4. 4: That beetles o'er his base into the sea." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
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Common Expressions: beetle
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Ambrosia beetle | Ambrosia beetles are wood-boring beetles in the genus Platypus. They attack weakened or recently cut trees, feeding on a fungus which they bring to the tree. They attack both pine species and hardwoods, but do not attack either healthy trees or seasoned lumber. (references) | ||
| American Burying Beetle | The American Burying Beetle or Giant Carrion Beetle, Nicrophorus americanus, is an endangered species of beetle endemic to North America. It is the largest carrion beetle in North America, is carnivorous and feeds on carrion and requires carrion to breed, and it is also one of the few species of beetle to exhibit parental care. The decline of the American burying beetle has been attributed to habitat loss, alteration, and degradation, and they now occur over less than 10% of their historic range. (references) | ||
| Ant-like flower beetle | The ant-like flower beetles are a family Anthicidae of beetles that bear a striking resemblance to ants. The family consists of over 3,000 species in about 100 genera. (references) | ||
| Ant-like stone beetle | The ant-like stone beetles are a family (Scydmaenidae) of beetles. These are small beetles (0.6-2.7mm), and many of the species have necks and a narrowing between thorax and abdomen, resulting in a passing resemblance to ants that inspires their common name. (references) | ||
| Asian lady beetle | The Asian lady beetle (Harmonia axyridis), often known as the Asian multicolored lady beetle because of the species' tendency to vary in color from orange to yellow to even black, is now a common insect in North America. It is a non-native insect on the continent, introduced in the United States in an attempt to control the spread of aphids. After many years of trying to establish a North American population of these beetles brought from their native region in northeastern Asia, a group finally took root in Louisiana around 1988. Since then, the insect has spread throughout the United States and has succeeded in controlling aphid populations. However, many people are now coming to view the Asian lady beetle as a nuisance, probably partly due to the fact that they not only like to overwinter indoors, along with the fact that they emit an unpleasant odor and a defensive stain when squashed. It is also currently increasing in Europe to the detriment of indigenous species, due to its voracious appetite which enables them to out-compete other lady beetles. (references) | ||
| Asian longhorned beetle | A beetle from China that has been found in the United States and is a threat to hardwood trees; lives inside the tree; no natural predators in the United States. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Asian long-horned beetle | The Asian long-horned beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis) is native to China and Korea where it causes widespread mortality of poplar, willow, elm, and maple throughout vast areas of eastern Asia. (references) | ||
| Asiatic beetle | Introduced into United States from the Orient; larvae feed on roots of sugarcane and other grasses. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Asparagus beetle | (Zo["o]l.), a small beetle (Crioceris asparagi) injurious to asparagus. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Asparagus beetle | Crioceris or Asparagus beetle is a genus of the family Chrysomelidae of beetles. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: beetle
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Ambrosia beetle | Biology & Biotechnology | 1: A member of the (mainly tropical) family Platypodidae and of some genera of the Scolytidae and Lymoxylidae, whose small cylindrical adults make or initiate tunnels (appearing in cross-section as shotholes, pinholes or needleholes) in green timber and living but generally unhealthy, damaged or dying trees. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| 2: A member of the(mainly tropical)family Platypodidae and of some genera of the Scolytidae and Lymoxylidae, whose small cylindrical adults make or initiate tunnels(appearing in cross-section as shotholes, pinholes or needleholes)in green timber and living but generally unhealthy, damaged or dying trees. Source: European Union. (references) | |||
| Asian long-horned beetle | Agriculture | A serious pest of hardwood trees in its native China that by 1998 had been found in 14 states in the United States, where it has no known natural enemies. APHIS is now working to detect and destroy the beetle, which is virtually impossible to eradicate with pesticides because it bores deep inside trees to lay its eggs; the only known suppression method is to remove and destroy infected trees. The agency reports that the beetle, which already has led to the destruction of many trees in parts of New York, could destroy millions of acres of hardwoods-including maples, horse chestnuts, poplars, willows, and elms-if it becomes established in the environment. APHIS believes that the beetle has been entering the United States in solid wood packing materials such as pallets and crates from China. For that reason, in late 1998, it banned all shipments from China containing such packing materials if they have not been treated to kill the pest. (references) | |
| Bark beetle | Biology & Biotechnology | A member of the family Scolytidae (Ipidae), whose adults and larvae tunnel in the cambial region (either in the bark only or in the bark and sapwood) of living, dying and recently dead or felled trees and do immense damage to forests all over the world. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Bark beetle | Geology | An insect that bores through the bark of forest trees to eat the inner bark and lay its eggs. Bark beetles are important killers of forest trees. (references) | |
| Beetle stone | Mining | A nodule of coprolitic ironstone, so named from the resemblance of the enclosed coprolite to the body and limbs of a beetle. Syn:septarium. (references) | |
| House longhorn beetle | Biology & Biotechnology | A beetle, approx. 25 mm. long and of the Cerambycidae family; its larva bore tunnels in construction timber indoors and can cause extensive internal damage, often without distinct visual symptoms. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Jewel beetle | Biology & Biotechnology | A member of genera of the family Buprestidae (Coleoptera) whose larvae tunnel in the bark and wood of living, generally damaged or dying trees, or of recently felled trees and logs. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Mountain pine beetle | Geology | A tiny black insect, ranging from 1/8 to 3/4 inch in size, that bores through a pine tree's bark. It stops the tree's intake and transport of the food and nutrients it must have to stay alive, thus killing the tree. (references) | |
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