A dung beetle.

A flying coleopterous insect or beetle; also dor-beetle, dor-fly. spec. (a) the common black dung beetle or dumble-dor (Geotrupes stercorarius)…

Chiefly Scottish and English regional (northern). More fully clock beetle. A beetle; esp. a dor beetle, or a cockroach.

= sharnbud, n.

any of numerous beetles, esp. of the families Geotrupidae and Scarabaeidae, which feed on or lay their eggs in dung, and which typically roll up…

†(a) the cockchafer, Melolontha melolontha (obsolete); (b) (in later use) the stable fly, Stomoxys calcitrans.

= dung beetle n. at dung, n.1 compounds 2.

a lamellicorn beetle (see quot.).

= tumble-dung n.

name in U.S. for a scarabæid beetle which rolls up balls of dung, in which it deposits its eggs and in which the larvæ go through their…

= dung beetle n.

= tumble-dung n.

= tumble-dung n. at tumble-, comb._form affix 1.

a dung beetle (Typhœus vulgaris).

A long-legged beetle, esp. Canthon lævis. Also attributive (similative).

A lamellicorn beetle, as the dung beetle, cockchafer, etc.

a beetle of the family Scarabæidæ.

a beetle of the family Geotrupidæ, found under dung, a dor-beetle.

The dor-beetle, Geotrupes stercorarius.

Entomology. = scarabaeid, n. (1895 in Funk's Standard Dict. Eng. Lang.).

A scarabæid beetle.

In full minotaur beetle. A black Eurasian dung beetle, Typhaeus typhoeus (family Geotrupidae), which bears three horn-like projections on the…