beetle vs mosquito

beetle

verb
  • To move (away) quickly, to scurry away. 

  • To beat with a heavy mallet. 

  • To loom over; to extend or jut. 

  • To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine. 

noun
  • A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; a beetling machine. 

  • Any of numerous species of insect in the order Coleoptera characterized by a pair of hard, shell-like front wings which cover and protect a pair of rear wings when at rest. 

  • A type of mallet with a large wooden head, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc. 

  • A game of chance in which players attempt to complete a drawing of a beetle, different dice rolls allowing them to add the various body parts. 

adj
  • Protruding, jutting, overhanging. 

mosquito

verb
  • To fly close to the ground, seemingly without a course. 

noun
  • A small flying insect of the family Culicidae, the females of which bite humans and animals and suck blood, leaving an itching bump on the skin, and sometimes carrying diseases like malaria and yellow fever. 

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