dung beetle

1. 1.

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

   Broaderscarabaeid beetle

   Narrowerscarabtumblebugdorbeetle

Questions about dung beetle

What does dung beetle mean?

dung beetle means "any of numerous beetles that roll balls of dung on which they feed and in which they lay eggs".

Is dung beetle a common word?

dung beetle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.