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shield beetle

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.46 in modern English

Syllables
shield- bee-tle
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of the American shield bugs, in the superfamily Pentatomoidea.

noun

Any of several shield-shaped leaf beetles that typically inhabit a specific species of tree; especially members of the genus Cassida.

British usage

noun

Cossyphidae spp., now in the family Tenebrionidae of darkling beetles.

Obsolete

Usage

Inflected Forms

shield beetles (plural)

Phrases

beet shield beetle birch shield beetle birch shield bug bronze shield beetle bronze shield bug clouded shield beetle green shield beetle green shield bug

Frequently Paired Words

tortoise beetle

Synonyms

chust bug stink

Questions

What does shield beetle mean?
Any of the American shield bugs, in the superfamily Pentatomoidea.

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