bloody-nosed beetle

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noun

a beetle, Timarcha tenebricosa, that exudes bright red blood when alarmed: family Chrysomelidae

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Words nearby bloody-nosed beetle

bloody, Bloody Caesar, bloody flux, Bloody Mary, bloody-minded, bloody-nosed beetle, bloody shirt, blooey, blook, bloom, bloomed

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How to use bloody-nosed beetle in a sentence

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And the next time his friend saw Moses, it was online; his bloody body was slapped on a stretcher.
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Like many other Pakistani Taliban, Jamal has his own horror stories to tell, which he believes can justify any bloody retribution.
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"So that is Jim Poindexter, the bloody villain," muttered the boy between his set teeth, and nervously fingering his revolver.
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They have fought countless bloody wars and have committed countless horrible atrocities in their zeal for Him.
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Her feet crush creeping things: there is a busy ant or blazoned beetle, with its back broken, writhing in the dust, unseen.
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But strangest of all the dishes at the Tagal's feast was one prepared from a kind of beetle.
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The memory of the hawk-nosed, steel-eyed officer who rode from Kurnaul to Meerut in twenty-four hours smote him like a whip.
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