Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A European dung beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius) that flies with a droning sound.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as dor
  • noun Same as dor.
  • noun and cockchafer, 1.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) See 1st dor.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The dor.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun Old World dung beetle that flies with a droning sound

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Obsolete dor, a buzzing bee or beetle (from Middle English dorre, from Old English dora) + beetle.]

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From dor +‎ beetle.

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