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Significats de lady-bug en anglès

Any of the Coccinellidae family of beetles, having a round shape and a red or yellow spotted shell.

        Ús de lady-bug en anglès
        1
        All afternoon the flight continued, but by nightfall there wasn't a lady-bug in sight.
        Out of Doors—California and Oregon
        2
        Why not even the tiny, turtle-shaped, yellow-back'd, black-spotted lady-bug that has lit on the shirt-sleeve of the arm inditing this?
        Complete Prose Works / Specimen Days and Collect, November Bough...
        3
        Nearby two gingham sunbonnets bobbed up and down as their owners bent their heads to watch a speckled lady-bug crawl up a twig.
        Dickey Downy: The Autobiography of a Bird
        4
        When we reached the Soda Springs, we met the most remarkable migration of red lady-bugs that I ever saw.
        Out of Doors—California and Oregon
        5
        We may discover lady-bugs-small red or yellow and black beetles-amongour vines, and many persons, I fear, will destroy them with the rest.
        The Home Acre
        6
        "You wouldn't really have killed the poor thing, though," exclaimed Alice, who had drawn near to look at the crimson lady-bug.
        Dickey Downy: The Autobiography of a Bird