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Tumbledung
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: noun (n.)
Any one of numerous species of scaraboid beetles belonging to Scarabæus, Copris, Phanæus, and allied genera. The female lays her eggs in a globular mass of dung which she rolls by means of her hind legs to a burrow excavated in the earth in which she buries it.