bombardier beetle
Noun 1. beetle that ejects audibly a pungent vapor when disturbed (hypernym) ground beetle, carabid beetle (member-holonym) Brachinus, genus Brachinus | ||||
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Bombardier beetle Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
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bombardier beetle
bombardier beetle
(zo?l.), a kind of beetle (brachinus crepitans), so called because, when disturbed, it makes an explosive discharge of a pungent and acrid vapor from its anal glands. the name is applied to other related species, as the b. displosor, which can produce ten or twelve explosions successively. the common american species is b...
see also bombardier
bombardier beetle
(zo?l.), a kind of beetle (brachinus crepitans), so called because, when disturbed, it makes an explosive discharge of a pungent and acrid vapor from its anal glands. the name is applied to other related species, as the b. displosor, which can produce ten or twelve explosions successively. the common american species is b...
see also bombardier
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Bombardier beetle
Bombardier Beetles are ground beetles (Carabidae) in the tribes Brachinini, Paussini, Ozaenini, or Metriini—more than 500 species altogether—that are most notable for the defense mechanism that gives them their name: They can fire a mixture of chemicals from special glands in their posterior.
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