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| bee·tle [ bt'l ] |
noun (plural bee·tles) |
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1. hard-backed insect: an insect belonging to a large order characterized by a modified outer pair of wings that forms a hard covering for the inner pair. Order Coleoptera.
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2. insect resembling beetle: an insect with an appearance similar to a beetle
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intransitive verb (past and past participle bee·tled, present participle bee·tling, 3rd person present singular bee·tles) |
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U.K. go quickly: to go somewhere quickly
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| [ Old English bitula, bitela< bītan "to bite"] |
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