Zyzzyva, e.g.

Usage examples of beetle.

RavenCrest snapped, drawing himself to his full height and glaring at the birdman from under beetling black eyebrows.

Unlike the bombardier beetles, they seemed to have no obvious form of communication.

The silk is transported to the city of the bombardier beetles, five miles to the north.

It is much more important, you see, than measuring nutrient levels and concocting chemical formulae for the annihilation of borer beetles.

The Japanese beetle, the citrous scale, the chestnut blight, and the elm borer spread to every corner of the world, and from one forgotten pesthole in Borneo, leprosy, long imagined extinct, reappeared.

The root stocks of the Yellow Water Lily, when bruised, and infused in milk, will destroy beetles and cockroaches.

So we thought happy thoughts and did happy things until at last I made out the tiny dark speck, like a water beetle on the brazen surface of the sea, as Chubby returned from St.

The shelve of the beach saved the cave from being flooded and the beetling of the cliff kept it dry and within a couple of feet of the entrance but it could not keep out the rain smell, the raw smell of Kerguelen carried from inland, the smell of bog patches and new washed dolerite and bitter vegetation, keen, like the smell of the Stone Age.

The shying pterabird balked at passing under a low arch of brick that dripped stalactites of beetle mucus.

There were gobble-mole ditches druggled through the meadow, dirt thrown up on either side in little dikes, a shower of earth flying up from time to time to mark the location of the mole as it druggled for beetles and worms and blind snakes.

Beetle ejected at a forty-five-degree angle from the cockpit, fire blazing under the ejection seat as the rocket drove him through the air.

They are scarcely half buried before some beetle runs to them and destroys them by an eviscerating wound.

He was conscience-ridden, and snatched exiguous half-hours for Mary and his beetles.

Aurelius Hauser examined his white shirtfront, and, finding a small beetle making its laborious way up it, he plucked it off, crushed it between spatulate thumb and forefinger with a satisfying chitinous crackle, and tossed it away.

When Jim was done, Hec looked at him for a long time, as if the boy were some rare specimen of beetle and Hec was a scientist trying to figure out what genus he belonged to.