Meaning of "pill beetle" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF PILL BEETLE

pill beetle

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PILL BEETLE

Pill beetle is a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PILL BEETLE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of pill beetle in the English dictionary

The definition of pill beetle in the dictionary is a very common beetle, Byrrhus pilula, typical of the family Byrrhidae, that can feign death by withdrawing legs and antennae into grooves underneath the oval body.

TRANSLATION OF PILL BEETLE

Find out the translation of pill beetle to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of pill beetle from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pill beetle» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 丸甲虫
• Translator English - Spanish: píldora escarabajo
• English: pill beetle
• Translator English - Hindi: गोली बीटल
• Translator English - Arabic: حبوب منع الحمل خنفساء
• Translator English - Russian: таблетки жук
• Translator English - Portuguese: pílula besouro
• Translator English - Bengali: পিল বিটল
• Translator English - French: pilule coléoptère
• Translator English - Malay: Kumbang pil
• Translator English - German: Pille Käfer
• Translator English - Japanese: ピルカブトムシ
• Translator English - Korean: 약 딱정벌레
• Translator English - Javanese: Kumbang kumbang
• Translator English - Vietnamese: thuốc bọ cánh cứng
• Translator English - Tamil: மாத்திரை வண்டு
• Translator English - Marathi: गोळी बीटल
• Translator English - Turkish: Hap böceği
• Translator English - Italian: pillola scarabeo
• Translator English - Polish: pigułka beetle
• Translator English - Ukrainian: таблетки жук
• Translator English - Romanian: pilula gândac
• Translator English - Greek: χάπι σκαθάρι
• Translator English - Afrikaans: pil Beetle
• Translator English - Swedish: piller skalbagge
• Translator English - Norwegian: pille bille

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PILL BEETLE»

Discover the use of pill beetle in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pill beetle and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

American Beetles: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through ...

... spring and early summer and are often found on beaches as washup or windblown drift. Most species retract their legs and antennae into ventral recesses and become motionless when disturbed, leading to the common name of pill beetle.

Ross H. Arnett, JR, Michael C. Thomas, Paul E. Skelley, 2002

American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North ...

... see Salpingidae (145) Net-winged beetle family; see Lycidae (67) Opossum beetle family; see Monommatidae (128) Pea and been weevil family; see Bruchidae (150) Peg beetle family; see Passalidae (30) Pill beetle family; see Byrrhidae ...

Ross H. Arnett, Jr., 2000

Oxford Thesaurus of English

... pharaoh ant phylloxera pill beetle pinhole borer pismire plant hopper plant louse pond skater potato beetle potter wasp powder-post beetle praying mantis rainfly raspberry beetle rat-tailed maggot rhinoceros beetle robber fly root fly slender ...

Maurice Waite, 2009

Advances in Quaternary Entomology

Modern Comparative Studies Berman (1990) studied Pleistocene records of the pill beetle, Morychus, from Siberian deposits. Pill beetle (Byrrhidae) fossils play an important part in many Quaternary assemblages throughout Beringia, ...

Scott Elias, 2009

Insects at Home: Being a Popular Account of All Those ...

Fig. a. The thorax is waved behind, and the body is very convex. The species which has been chosen for illustration is the Banded Pill Beetle (Byrrhus fasciatus), which is drawn on 1. Byrrhus fasciatns. 2. Elmis icncns. 3. Heterocerus floxnosni".

John George Wood, 1873

A Field Guide to Insects: America North of Mexico

Tarsi 4-4-4 or 5-5-5. 1.2-10.0 mm. Pill beetles are iound beneath logs and obfects on the ground, PILL BEETLE oiten in sandy places or associated with mosses. Larvae live. VARIEGATED MUD-LOVING B. f WATER-PENNY BEETLE.

Donald Joyce Borror, 1998

Zoological Philosophy: An Exposition with Regard to the ...

Carrion-beetle. Staphylinus (rove-beetle). Nitidula. Ips. Goliathus. Dermestes. Cockchafer. Anthrenus. Lethms. Byrrhus (pill-beetle). Geotrupes (dor-beetle). Hister. Copris (dung-beetle). Sphoeridinus. Scarabaeus (chafer). — Passealus. Trox.

Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de Lamarck, 2011

Oxford Dictionary of English

Pillars of Hercules an ancient name for two promVontories on either side of the Strait of Gibraltar (the Rock of Gibraltar and Mount Acho in Ceuta), held by legend to have been parted by the arm of Hercules. pill beetle 7noun a small convex ...

Angus Stevenson, 2010

Inspection manual for highway structures: Vol. 1: Reference ...

... Essex emerald New Forest burnet Beetles Chrysolina cerealis Curimopsis nigrita Graphoderus zonatus Hydrochara caraboides Hypebaeus flavipes Limoniscus violaceus Paracymus aeneus Rainbow leaf beetle Mire pill beetle Water beetle ...

‎2007

The Swift Fox: Ecology and Conservation of Swift Foxes in a ...

Seven different families of beetle were identified, including Cicindelidae (tiger beetle), Curculionidae (weevil), Byrrhidae (pill beetle), Scarabaeidae (dung beetle), Carabidae (ground beetle), Tenebrionidae (darkling beetle), and Silphidae ...

Ludwig N. Carbyn, Marsha Ann Sovada, 2003