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SQUASH BEETLE

Definition: SQUASH BEETLE

SQUASH BEETLE

1. (Zo["o]l.), a small American beetle (Diabrotica, or Galeruca vittata) which is often abundant and very injurious to the leaves of squash, cucumber, etc. It is striped with yellow and black. The name is applied also to other allied species.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Modern Translation: SQUASH BEETLE

Language Translations for "SQUASH BEETLE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Manx

  

meeyl goord. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ashsquay eetlebay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: SQUASH BEETLE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-e-h-l-q-s-s-t-u"

-3 letters: bequeaths.

-4 letters: bathless, beatless, bequeath, bequests, eusteles, heatless, saltbush, sequelae, sublates, sublease, tubeless.

-5 letters: basques, beetles, behests, bequest, bethels, blushes, buqshas, bushels, bustles, eluates, equable, equates, eustele, haslets, hatless, hueless, hustles, leashes, lushest, quashes, salutes, seeable, seethes, sequela, sequels, sheltas, sleuths, squeals, stables, sublate, sublets, subsale, taluses, teasels, teleses, useable.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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