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oil beetles

oil beetles is the plural of oil beetle.

Meaning of oil beetle

Noun

oil beetle (plural oil beetles)

  1. Any of the genus Meloe of blister beetles, which release oily droplets of toxic hemolymph from their joints when disturbed.

Questions about oil beetles

What is oil beetles the plural of?
Oil beetles is the plural of oil beetle.

Words near oil beetles in the dictionary

  1. oil barons
  2. oil barrel
  3. oil bath
  4. oil baths
  5. oil beetle
  6. oil beetles
  7. oil bug
  8. oil bugs
  9. oil burner
  10. oil burner route
  11. oil burner routes

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