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Tumbledung

Tum"ble*dung`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of scaraboid beetles belonging to Scarab[ae]us, Copris, Phan[ae]us, 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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