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spider beetle

spider beetle noun: any member of the subfamily Ptininae of beetles, whose antennas make them appear to have eight legs, as spiders do.

Noun

spider beetle (plural spider beetles)

  1. Any member of the subfamily Ptininae of beetles, whose antennas make them appear to have eight legs, as spiders do.

Forms of spider beetle

pluralspider beetles

Questions about spider beetle

What does spider beetle mean?
Spider beetle means any member of the subfamily Ptininae of beetles, whose antennas make them appear to have eight legs, as spiders do.
What part of speech is spider beetle?
Spider beetle is a noun.
What is the plural of spider beetle?
The plural of spider beetle is spider beetles.

Words near spider beetle in the dictionary

  1. spicy-hot
  2. spide
  3. Spidell
  4. Spidells
  5. spider
  6. spider beetle
  7. spider beetles
  8. spider box
  9. spider boxes
  10. spider chart
  11. spider cloth

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