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dung beetle

Word definitions for dung beetle in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. any of numerous beetles that roll balls of dung on which they feed and in which they lay eggs

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Dung beetles are beetles that feed partly or exclusively on dung. A dung beetle can bury dung 250 times heavier than itself in one night. Many dung beetles, known as rollers , roll dung into round balls, which are used as a food source or brooding chambers. ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A type of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae noted for rolling dung into spherical balls and pushing it.

Usage examples of dung beetle.

It ambled on slowly, and paused under the cacti to poke its reptilian face into the empty shell of a dung beetle.

Nodding, Duiker found himself watching a dung beetle struggle heroically to push aside a fragment of palm bark.

Since the invention of the dung beetle, which had in fact happened not too far away, it was probable that no creature had ever carried so much weight.

While it was still more than two feet away, one of the green tendrils swooped down on it, and a second later the bewildered dung beetle was being lifted through the air, the end of the tendril coiled round its midriff like a python.