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shield beetles

shield beetles is the plural of shield beetle.

Meaning of shield beetle

Noun

shield beetle (plural shield beetles)

  1. Any of the American shield bugs, in the superfamily Pentatomoidea.
    Synonyms:
    chust bug, stink
  2. (UK) Any of several shield-shaped leaf beetles that typically inhabit a specific species of tree; especially members of the genus Cassida.
  3. (obsolete) Cossyphidae spp., now in the family Tenebrionidae of darkling beetles.

Questions about shield beetles

What is shield beetles the plural of?
Shield beetles is the plural of shield beetle.

Words near shield beetles in the dictionary

  1. shieks
  2. shiel
  3. shield
  4. shield aralia
  5. shield beetle
  6. shield beetles
  7. shield bug
  8. shield bugs
  9. shield fern
  10. shield ferns
  11. shield law

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