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beetle-stickers

beetle-stickers is the plural of beetle-sticker.

Meaning of beetle-sticker

Noun

beetle-sticker (plural beetle-stickers)

  1. (dated, slang) An entomologist.
    • Entomologists all over England are in despair at the total failure of the insect crop, and have taken to botanising, angling, and other bad habits, in default of means for pursuing their natural avocation as beetle-stickers.1884, Grant Allen, The Evolutionist at Large, page 105

Questions about beetle-stickers

What is beetle-stickers the plural of?
Beetle-stickers is the plural of beetle-sticker.

Words near beetle-stickers in the dictionary

  1. beetle-crushers
  2. beetle-headed
  3. beetle-squasher
  4. beetle-squashers
  5. beetle-sticker
  6. beetle-stickers
  7. beetlebrain
  8. beetlebrained
  9. beetlebrains
  10. beetled
  11. beetlehead

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