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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of various beetles of the family Scarabaeidae that form balls of dung on which they feed and in which they lay their eggs.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A type of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae noted for rolling dung into spherical balls and pushing it.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. any of numerous beetles that roll balls of dung on which they feed and in which they lay eggs

Examples

  • ““According to Dr. Deadwood at the University of Boredom, the dung beetle represents the ancient pop invasion of the Rolling Stones—””

    Simon & Schuster: The Welkening

  • “About six inches in diameter, the amulet was a golden heart-shaped scarab, a dung beetle that, the sign said, ancient Egyptians used to symbolize rebirth.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Welkening

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  • hernesheir Thanks c_b - bracket closed! Sep 28, 2009

  • chained_bear (hernesheir, might want to close your bracket after dung beetle... :)) Sep 28, 2009

  • hernesheir "As I sat on a boulder at the edge of the road to Bandipore to the Gurais Valley and Nanga Parbat, I suddenly saw a mud-colored marble rolling across the grass surface of the track...I learnt later that it was a dung beetle, and that the 'marble' was made of dung of a consistency suitable to receive the beetle's eggs.
    T.M. Ward, Devon: "The Countryman (British agricultural quarterly) Winter issue, 1956, p. 702-703. Sep 27, 2009

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