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Definition of Dorbeetles
1. dorbeetle [n] - See also: dorbeetle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dorbeetles
Literary usage of Dorbeetles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the Year edited by Jared Sparks, Francis Bowen, George Partridge Sanger (1838)
"... dorbeetles, and other insects, remain long on the wing in the evening. On the
contrary, bats' retiring early to their haunts, shows that their food is ..."
2. The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge (1838)
"... and they do so, because in calm and settled weather, gnats, dorbeetles, and
other insects, remain long on the wing in the evening. ..."
3. The Heart of the White Mountains: Their Legend and Scenery by Samuel Adams Drake (1882)
"dorbeetles hurtle the still air, and frogs sing barcarolles in the misty" fens.
Now the mountains put on their sable armor that is to render them invisible. ..."
4. The Life of the Grasshopper by Jean-Henri Fabre (1917)
"... or dorbeetles, those other sturdy excavators. The manner of working accounts
for this difference. The Dung- beetle progresses from the outside inwards; ..."
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