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Meanings of ladybird in English

Portuguese
coccinela
Catalan
marieta

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

coccinela
Usage of ladybird in English
1
However, the ladybird disdained the insect, and flew away among the flowers.
Chatterbox, 1906
2
Something crept across Amrei's face; she brushed it off-itwas a ladybird.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
3
The youngest is she who will have a ladybird on her eyelid.
The Grey Fairy Book
4
She had as little spiritual pride as a ladybird or an ant.
Fan : The Story of a Young Girl's Life
5
And Milica the ladybird trips her way down to us too.
How the soldier repairs the gramophone
6
I saw most of them being eaten later by a ladybird.
The Irish Times
7
The ladybird's wings spread like a shell cracking open and she takes off.
The great lover
8
Martina Dempsey, Wexford It is not the invasive alien harlequin ladybird.
The Irish Times
9
The ladybird, the butterfly, and the bee-whowould put chains upon such creatures?
The Pleasures of Ignorance
10
I saw this unusual ladybird on December 27th in a garden in Co Carlow.
The Irish Times
11
Why anthropomorphise it into the motoring offshoot of a ladybird?
The Irish Times
12
My ladybird, is it thou, and at such an hour?
In the Days of Chivalry: A Tale of the Times of the Black Prince
13
The insect, which resembles a ladybird, could destroy potato crops.
The Irish Times
14
They plopped the ladybird arachnids into empty plastic water bottles, filled with heather and moss.
Wired
15
Baba the ladybird shrinks them to her size so they can join her for tea.
The Irish Times
16
I acquired a 16-spot orange ladybird on my person on a walk around Castle- town House.
The Irish Times
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Catalan
marieta
Ladybird through the time