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tumbledung
CIDE DICTIONARY
tumbledung, 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. [1913 Webster]
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