Usually means: Insect that rolls and buries feces.
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  1. dung beetle: Merriam-Webster
  2. dung beetle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dung beetle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dung beetle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dung beetle: Vocabulary.com
  6. dung-beetle: Wordnik
  7. dung-beetle, dung beetle: Wiktionary
  8. dung beetle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. dung beetle: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. dung beetle: Dictionary.com
  11. Dung Beetle, Dung beetle (disambiguation), Dung beetle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. dung beetle: Rhymezone
  13. dung beetle: FreeDictionary.org
  14. dung beetle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. dung beetle: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dung-beetle, dung beetle: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dung Beetle: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See dung_beetles as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (dung beetle)

noun:  Any of the beetle of the family Scarabaeidae (scarab beetles), especially of the subfamilies Scarabaeinae and Aphodiinae, noted for rolling dung into balls for use as food or as brooding chambers.
noun:  Any of the true dung beetles of subfamily Scarabaeinae.

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