Beetle

Noun

 * 1) 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.
 * 2) A type of mallet with a large wooden head.

Verb

 * 1) To move away quickly, to scurry away.
 * 2) To loom over.

Adjectives for Beetle
woodboring; swarming (plural); laden; moisture-laden; mite-laden; anxious; straggling; murmuring; stingless; industrious; sexless; restless; marauding; buzzing; bustling; busy; sucking; blood sucking; noisome; infuriated; drowsy; iridescent; carnivorous; obscurely-colored; glistening

Verbs for Beetle
armor—; attack —s; control —s; crush—; exterminate —s; infest with —s; plague with —s; sheathe—; spray—; —bites; — captures; —chews; —destroys; —devastates;—feigns; —forages; —gnaws; —menaces; — ravage; —scurries along; —tears out; —tumbles along; -scurried; -lands; -buried;

Thesaurus
arachnid, arthropod, beetle-browed, beetling, bug, caterpillar, centipede, chilopod, daddy longlegs, digester, diplopod, fly, hang out, hang over, harvestman, hexapod, impend, impend over, impendent, impending, incumbent, insect, jut, jutting, larva, lean over, lowering, macerator, maggot, masher, millepede, millipede, mite, nymph, overhang, overhanging, overhung, pending, poke, potato masher, pouch, pout, project, project over, projecting, protrude, pulp machine, pulper, pulpifier, scorpion, smasher, spider, stand out, superincumbent, tarantula, thrust over, tick

Synonyms

 * bug

Derived terms

 * beetle-browed
 * Christmas beetle
 * click beetle
 * Colorado beetle
 * deathwatch beetle


 * dung beetle
 * huhu beetle
 * lady beetle
 * oil beetle
 * rhinoceros beetle


 * rove beetle
 * stag beetle
 * water beetle
 * whirligig beetle