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Meanings of beetle in English

Portuguese
malho
Spanish
mazo

A tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing.

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        malho

        Jutting or overhanging.

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              Be suspended over or hang over.

                    Big black thing.

                          Usage of beetle in English
                          1
                          Indeed, one in four animal species on this planet is a beetle.
                          Wired
                          2
                          Fish and Wildlife Service asking that the beetle removal work be stopped.
                          The Guardian
                          3
                          In the great Dyticus water-beetle this is done in a curious way.
                          Chatterbox, 1905.
                          4
                          Bartl said that optical computer chips won't actually run on beetle scales.
                          Wired
                          5
                          The long-noses brought you here from the place of your beetle friends.
                          Jem
                          6
                          This week we are taking a look at the mānuka chafer beetle.
                          Radio NZ
                          7
                          Photograph: Francis Devine We came across a small beetle on our lavender.
                          The Irish Times
                          8
                          There was not a rat or a black beetle in the place.
                          Thomas Wingfold, Curate V1
                          9
                          He held the beetle in his hand a long while, loving it.
                          The Worshipper of the Image
                          10
                          His dæmon, a large and iridescent green-backedbeetle, clicked her wing cases.
                          The amber spyglass
                          11
                          So you have to find the right beetle for your own climate.
                          Radio NZ
                          12
                          The Engelmann spruce beetle has devastated many forests of the Rocky Mountains.
                          The School Book of Forestry
                          13
                          The scarab Madge knew to be a beetle sacred to the Egyptians.
                          Madge Morton's Secret
                          14
                          Moreover, the beetle eats its prey on the spot as it kills.
                          Social Life in the Insect World
                          15
                          Phase two involves bio-control via an imported fungus to eradicate the beetle.
                          Radio NZ
                          16
                          The new monotypic genus is compared with fossil and extant flea-beetle genera.
                          Pubmed
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                          Translations for beetle
                          Portuguese
                          malho
                          Spanish
                          mazo
                          Beetle through the time
                          Beetle across language varieties
                          New Zealand
                          Common
                          United Kingdom
                          Common
                          United States of America
                          Common
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