Category:Tumbledung

Tum"ble*dung`, n. (zoöl.)

Defn: 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.