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dung beetle

noun

  1. any of various scarab beetles that feed on or breed in dung.


dung beetle

noun

  1. any of the various beetles of the family Scarabaeidae and related families that feed on or breed in dung
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of dung beetle1

First recorded in 1625–35
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Example Sentences

Diverse trees and grasses support scores of other species, from vivid green-orange Fischer’s lovebirds to dung beetles.

This diversity of trees and grasses support scores of other species, from vivid green-orange Fischer’s lovebirds to dung beetles.

Their surveys showed that 29 species in the state — including dung beetles, freshwater crayfish, flies, snails and spiders — had their entire ranges burned.

And then to be fooling round here alone night after night with that dung-beetle, that Tommy—the beast smells, I tell you.

The mates of several species of dung-beetle keep house together and know the worth of mutual labour.

And as I said 'Hodge, my dear Hodge,' you tumbled about like a kernel of corn which a dung-beetle blows with his breath.

Life is everywhere the same, in the Dung beetle's body as in man's.

Of this description is the maxilla in the common dung-beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius), and rove-beetle (Staphylinus olens).

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