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milkweed tortoise beetle

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tortoise beetle

–noun
any of several turtle-shaped leaf beetles, as Chelymorpha cassidea (argus tortoise beetle or milkweed tortoise beetle), which resembles the ladybird beetle and feeds primarily on bindweed and milkweed.

Origin:
1705–15
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