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tortoise beetle

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.07 in modern English

Syllables
tor-toise bee-tle
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A beetle in the taxonomic tribe Cassidini within the subfamily Cassidinae of the family Chrysomelidae (leaf beetles).

Inflected Forms

tortoise beetles (plural)

Questions

What does tortoise beetle mean?
A beetle in the taxonomic tribe Cassidini within the subfamily Cassidinae of the family Chrysomelidae (leaf beetles).

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