Crossword clues for stinkbug
Wiktionary
n. 1 insects, usually shield-shaped, that possess a gland that produces a foul smelling liquid, usually containing aldehydes which they use to discourage predators. 2 (context entomology English) A common name applied to various insects of the Hemiptera order (the "true bugs"), in the Heteroptera suborder, principally in the superfamilies ''(taxlink Pentatomoidea family noshow=1)'' and ''(taxlink Coreoidea family noshow=1)''. 3 (context US Southwest English) A (vern: pinacate beetle) or (vern: stink beetle) (genus (taxlink Eleodes genus noshow=1)) that releases a pungent odor when threatened.
Usage examples of "stinkbug".
The ancient warrior was looking down at the ground where the illusion of the stinkbug would be, and there was a hint of puzzlement in that leathery, impassive face.
Rudy felt his face grow hot and wished he could truly disappear or return to his stinkbug shape and trundle off into the desert, never to be seen again.
Harmless, black, little, trundling along minding its own stinkbug business.
With utmost stealth, Rudy the stinkbug began his walk across the open ground of the camp.
He looked over at his car, still canted at an impossible angle, nose first into the creek with the trunk sticking up like the hind end of a stinkbug, and for a few moments he felt as if he were in shadows, felt the world turn darker and a chill breeze blow across the back of his neck, as if a cloud had drifted across the sun.
The creature looked like a stinkbug, but according to the overdoc it was more than ten centimeters long.
Anyone who made trouble for King Trent ran the risk of being transformed to a toad or a stinkbug, for Trent was the great transformer.