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devil's coachhorse

devil's coachhorse is the alternative form of devil's coach-horse.

Meaning of devil's coach-horse

Noun

devil's coach-horse (plural devil's coach-horses)

  1. A large black European rove beetle, Staphylinus olens or Ocypus olens.

Forms of devil's coachhorse

pluraldevil's coachhorses

Questions about devil's coachhorse

What is devil's coachhorse the alternative form of?
Devil's coachhorse is the alternative form of devil's coach-horse.

Words near devil's coachhorse in the dictionary

  1. devil's claw
  2. devil's claws
  3. devil's club
  4. devil's coach-horse
  5. devil's coach-horses
  6. devil's coachhorse
  7. devil's corkscrew
  8. devil's corkscrews
  9. devil's cotton
  10. devil's cream
  11. devil's cucumber

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Adapted from Wiktionary: devil's coachhorse (page history and authors); devil's coach-horse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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