beetle
/ˈbiːtəl/ noun B2- Any of numerous species of insect in the order Coleoptera characterized by a pair of hard, shell-like front wings which cover and protect a pair of rear wings when at rest.
- A game of chance in which players attempt to complete a drawing of a beetle, different dice rolls allowing them to add the various body parts.
Plural beetles
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Once, indeed, the Tin Woodman stepped upon a beetle that was crawling along the road, and killed the poor little thing.
For if I should kill another bug or beetle I should surely cry again, and crying rusts my jaws so that I cannot speak.”
Are there not enough beetles and frogs in the tanks that he must eat Man, and on our ground too!”
I had often seen one placed at the end of a road on a hillock, and in the light of the sun its black arms, bending in every direction, always reminded me of the claws of an immense beetle, and I assure you it was never without emotion that I gazed on it, for I could not help thinking how wonderful it was that these various signs should be made to cleave the air with such precision as to convey to the distance of three hundred leagues the ideas and wishes of a man sitting at a table at one end of the line to another man similarly placed at the opposite extremity, and all this effected by a simple act of volition on the part of the sender of the message.
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