Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

oil beetle

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.52 in modern English

Syllables: oil bee-tle
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Inflected Forms

oil beetles (plural)

Questions

What does oil beetle mean?: Any of the genus Meloe of blister beetles, which release oily droplets of toxic hemolymph from their joints when disturbed.

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