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Webster 1913 Edition
Bombardier
Bomˊbar-dier′
,Noun.
[F.
bombardier
.] (Mil.)
(a)
One who used or managed a bombard; an artilleryman; a gunner.
[Archaic]
(b)
A noncommissioned officer in the British artillery.
Bombardier beetle
(Zool.)
, a kind of beetle (
Brachinus crepitans
), so called because, when disturbed, it makes an explosive discharge of a pungent and acrid vapor from its anal glands. The name is applied to other related species, as the Brachinus displosor
, which can produce ten or twelve explosions successively. The common American species is Brachinus fumans
.Webster 1828 Edition
Bombardier
BOMBARDIE'R
,Noun.
1.
Carabus, a genus of insects of the beetle kind.