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deathwatch beetle
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Noun deathwatch beetle has 1 sense
- deathwatch beetle(n = noun.animal) deathwatch, xestobium rufovillosum - bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought to presage death; Array is a kind of beetle
is a member of anobiidae, family anobiidae
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