Tumbledung

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tumbledung \Tum"ble*dung`\, n. (Zool.)
     Any one of numerous species of scaraboid beetles belonging to
     {Scarabaeus}, {Copris}, {Phanaeus}, 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.


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