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Definition of Tumblebug
1. Noun. Any of various dung beetles.
Definition of Tumblebug
1. n. See Tumbledung.
Definition of Tumblebug
1. Noun. A dung beetle. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tumblebug
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tumblebug
Literary usage of Tumblebug
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Butterflies and Bees: The Insect Folk : Volume II by Margaret Warner Morley (1905)
"Ah, tumblebug, tumble- bug ! we know your ways and why you are working so ...
Little Madam tumblebug has climbed to the top of her ball and thrust out her ..."
2. Jurgen and the Censor: Report of the Emergency Committee Organized to by Edward Hale Bierstadt, James Branch Cabell, Arnold Bennett, Theodore Dreiser, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Sinclair Lewis, Christopher Morley, Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Owen Wister (1920)
"And when the judges were prepared for judging, there came into the court a great
tumblebug, rolling in front of him his loved and properly housed young ones ..."
3. The Teacher, the School and the Community by Inez Nellie Canfield McFee (1918)
"The tumblebug and the ladybird belong to the beetle tribe. The latter is a special
friend of man, ... The tumblebug rolls its egg in a ball of moist earth. ..."
4. Zoölogy for High Schools and Academies by Margaretta Burnet (1895)
"Our common tumblebug protects its egg by placing it within a spherical ball of
earth or dung, which is buried in a hole prepared for it. ..."
5. Report of the Illinois State Entomologist Concerning Operations Under the by Illinois State Entomologist (1905)
"179) resembles a small tumblebug. It has a blunt forward-projecting horn on the
thorax. It is generally abundant, most so about decaying animal or vegetable ..."
6. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1903)
"A tumblebug came next, heaving sturdily at its ball, and Tom touched the creature,
to see it shut its legs against its body and pretend to be dead. ..."
7. American Literature by Thomas Ernest Rankin, Wilford Merton Aikin (1922)
"... thus, — it wuz "tumblebug" as he Writ it, but the parson put the Latten instid.
i sed tother maid better meeter, but he said tha was ..."
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