bombardier• A biochemistcolleague has kindly provided me with a bottle of hydrogenperoxide, and enough hydroquinone for 50 bombardierbeetles.• If you are curious about the bombardier beetle, by the way, what actually happens is as follows.• This is what the bombardier beetle does.• The bombardier beetle's ancestors simply pressed into different service chemicals that already happened to be around.• George A.. Ward, bombardier.
Originbombardier
(1900-2000)bombardier“soldier in charge of a gun”((16-20 centuries)), from French, from bombarde; → BOMBARD