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Amphipoda
n. pl. · 78% connection
A numerous group of fourteen -- footed Crustacea, inhabiting both fresh and salt water. The body is usually compressed laterally, and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, beetle, family, halticidae, many.
Bark beetle
unknown · 78% connection
A small beetle of many species (family Scolytidae), which in the larval state bores under or in the bark of trees, often doing great d…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, beetle, family, halticidae, many.
Beetle
verb · 78% connection
To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine; as, to beetle cotton goods.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, beetle, family, halticidae, many.
Bookworm
noun · 78% connection
Any larva of a beetle or moth, which is injurious to books. Many species are known.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, beetle, family, halticidae, many.
Botfly
noun · 78% connection
A dipterous insect of the family (Estridae, of many different species, some of which are particularly troublesome to domestic animals,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, beetle, family, halticidae, many.
Cantharis
noun · 78% connection
A beetle (Lytta, / Cantharis, vesicatoria), havin1g an elongated cylindrical body of a brilliant green color, and a nauseous odor; the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, beetle, family, halticidae, many.
Capriole
verb · 78% connection
A leap that a horse makes with all fours, upwards only, without advancing, but with a kick or jerk of the hind legs when at the height…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, beetle, family, halticidae, many.
Caterpillar
noun · 78% connection
The larval state of a butterfly or any lepidopterous insect; sometimes, but less commonly, the larval state of other insects, as the s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, beetle, family, halticidae, many.
Clock
noun · 78% connection
A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle (Scarabaeus stercorarius).
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, beetle, family, halticidae, many.
Colorado beetle
unknown · 78% connection
A yellowish beetle (Doryphora decemlineata), with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, beetle, family, halticidae, many.
Curvet
noun · 78% connection
A particular leap of a horse, when he raises both his fore legs at once, equally advanced, and, as his fore legs are falling, raises h…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, beetle, family, halticidae, many.
Doryphora
noun · 78% connection
A genus of plant-eating beetles, including the potato beetle. See Potato beetle.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, beetle, family, halticidae, many.
Elater
noun · 78% connection
Any beetle of the family Elateridae, having the habit, when laid on the back, of giving a sudden upward spring, by a quick movement of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, beetle, family, halticidae, many.
Flea
noun · 78% connection
An insect belonging to the genus Pulex, of the order Aphaniptera. Fleas are destitute of wings, but have the power of leaping energeti…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, beetle, family, halticidae, many.
Fleabane
noun · 78% connection
One of various plants, supposed to have efficacy in driving away fleas. They belong, for the most part, to the genera Conyza, Erigeron…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, beetle, family, halticidae, many.
Giraffe
noun · 78% connection
An African ruminant (Camelopardalis giraffa) related to the deers and antelopes, but placed in a family by itself; the camelopard. It…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, beetle, family, halticidae, many.
Grouse
n. sing. & pl. · 78% connection
Any of the numerous species of gallinaceous birds of the family Tetraonidae, and subfamily Tetraoninae, inhabiting Europe, Asia, and N…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, beetle, family, halticidae, many.
Grub
noun · 78% connection
The larva of an insect, especially of a beetle; -- called also grubworm. See Illust. of Goldsmith beetle, under Goldsmith.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, beetle, family, halticidae, many.
