I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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black
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Tiny, polished black pollen beetles crawled over her hand: she had become part of their landscape.
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A group identity, the way they say black beetles do?
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And she couldn't sleep on the floor of the factory with the mice skittering round, and the black beetles everywhere.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A group identity, the way they say black beetles do?
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If you are curious about the bombardier beetle , by the way, what actually happens is as follows.
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It is found mainly in timbers less than fifty years old and is a much larger insect than the furniture beetle .
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The house longhorn beetle is another insect pest which seems to be confined to parts of Hampshire and south-west Surrey.
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The presence of beetles is acknowledged as an indicator of the general health of the forest.
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There also were beetles crawling on the ice in slow motion.
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Three hundred thousand kinds of beetles are known, far more than any other group.
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You know that story of the man who wakes up and finds he's turned into a beetle ?
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Crowe offered a pathetic excuse about investigating woodworm infestation for his nature column, but I soon beetled the truth out of him.
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It is useless to beetle your brow in what you clearly believe to be a threatening fashion.
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The little mouth was born with a scowl, the brows positively beetle over the turned-up be-ringed breathing apparatus.
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They beetled past; a game to top each other's sniggers.