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Any of the Coccinellidae family of beetles, having a round shape and a red or yellow spotted shell.
ladybug
ladybird
lady beetle
lady-bug
ladybeetle
1
My bonnibell, my
lady
-
bird
,
I have none but good tales to tell thee.
2
Let us come into the town,
lady
-
bird
,
and choose a doll.
3
The
lady
-
bird
must just be passing through.
4
Sorry to find the
lady
-
bird
flown.
5
That handsome, perfumed
lady
-
bird
that used to come to see you....
6
And, puffing the cigarette smoke at a
lady
-
bird
on the shining table, he plunged into a reverie about the house.
7
Look thee, Mahound, though my mistress sent me to such a
lady
-
bird
as thou art, Master Oliver shall know on't.
8
Like all insects the aphis has its special insect enemies, among which the
lady
-
bird
("lady-cow" in Worcestershire) is the most important.
9
But the ant has sense enough to keep the aphis for a supply of honey-dew instead of killing it as the
lady
-
bird
does.
10
And they could not understand at all why no swift depredating graces nor any habit of long soft hooting belonged to that
lady
-
bird
.
11
And they came running into the sitting room behind the store to show the
lady
-
bird
to Polly's father, who was there looking over his paper.
12
Somehow, you've given me the impression she's just one of these
lady
-
birds
.
13
These letters have been falling about like a shower of
lady
-
birds
.
14
And now, my
lady
-
birds
,
who else shall we invite to the house party?
15
Eat, lady- bird,-nothinglike eating to kill time and banish care.
16
Now the
lady
-
birds
are also fond of the aphides, and eat them up by hundreds.
lady-bird beetle