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beetlelike

a. Resembling or characteristic of a beetle.

Usage examples of "beetlelike".

Kate, too, reacted similarly by sending out bursts of ice in which several squealing, beetlelike creatures were immediately encased.

They were clouds kicked up by the beetlelike buses that crawled around the Phobos shuttle that had just landed.

Cygnans with barrel-wheeled bulldozers and beetlelike backhoes were digging them out.

Motion detectors were planted in such overlapping profusion that a large, dung-eating beetlelike creature endemic to the scrub could be tracked to within millimeters throughout its range.

To Eddie, the beetlelike picture hooks seemed to be crawling on the walls.

PC interface, so producing a little beetlelike creature that could scuttle around the room, avoiding chair legs.

Malenfant saw creatures crawling through those deep shadows, immense beetlelike beings.

The clicking grew even louder, more rhythmic, coming from the great beetlelike troops of the Jerminians.

Another variety of beetlelike creatures specialized in irrigation, trundling water, held in body sacs, which was carefully dribbled along neat rows.