Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tumble-bug.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of scaraboid beetles belonging to Scarabæus, Copris, Phanæus, and allied genera. The female lays her eggs in a globular mass of dung which she rolls by means of her hind legs to a burrow excavated in the earth in which she buries it.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
dung beetle .
Etymologies
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tumble + dung
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Examples
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As I do not travel at a furious speed I manage to avoid most things, even the wandering loveless oil-beetle and the small rose-beetle and that slow-moving insect tortoise the tumbledung.
Afoot in England 1881
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