Colorado beetle

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• Colorado

  ·add. ·adj Medium in color and strength; — said of cigars. II. Colorado ·add. ·adj Reddish; — oft...

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• Beetle

  ·vt To beat with a heavy mallet. II. Beetle ·vt A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavement...

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• Beetle

  (Heb. hargol, meaning "leaper"). Mention of it is made only in Lev. 11:22, where it is obvious the w...

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• beetle

  A shipwright's heavy mallet for driving the wedges called reeming irons, so as to open the seams in ...

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• Beetle

  [Locust] ...

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• Colorado group

  ·- A subdivision of the cretaceous formation of western North America, especially developed in Color...

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• Ambrosia beetle

  ·add. ·- A bark beetle that feeds on ambrosia. ...

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• Bark beetle

  ·- A small beetle of many species (family Scolytidae), which in the larval state bores under or in t...

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• Beetle brow

  ·- An overhanging brow. ...

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• Beetle-browed

  ·- Having prominent, overhanging brows; hence, lowering or sullen. ...

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• Beetle-headed

  ·adj Dull; stupid. ...

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• Click beetle

  ·- ·see <<Elater>>. ...

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• Fire beetle

  ·- A very brilliantly luminous beetle (Pyrophorus noctilucus), one of the elaters, found in Central ...

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• Flea-beetle

  ·noun A small beetle of the family Halticidae, of many species. They have strong posterior legs and ...

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• Goliath beetle

  ·- Any species of Goliathus, a genus of very large and handsome African beetles. ...

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• Tapestry beetle

  ·add. ·- A small black dermestoid beetle (Attagenus piceus) whose larva feeds on tapestry, carpets, ...

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• Water beetle

  ·- Any one of numerous species of aquatic beetles belonging to Dytiscus and allied genera of the fam...

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• beetle-browed

  One having thick projecting eyebrows. ...

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• beetle-headed

  Dull, stupid. ...

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• beetle-head

  A large beetle, weighing 1000 lbs., swayed up by a crabwinch to a height, and dropped by a pincer-sh...

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• reeming-beetle

  A caulker's largest mallet. ...

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• dover court beetle

  A heavy mallet. There is an old proverb: "A Dover court; all speakers and no hearers." "A Dover co...

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