coleopter

British

/ ˌkɒlɪˈɒptə /

noun

obsolete aeronautics an aircraft that has an annular wing with the fuselage and engine on the centre line

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A light-colored coleopter is eaten roasted by the inhabitants.

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An insect which is neither a coleopter, nor a neuropteran, nor a hymenopter; which does not belong to any of the ten orders recognized by savants, and which they will be rather tempted to rank in the second section of the arachnides.

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The insect escaped him while playing with him, and soon, arrived under the fresh branches, it arose, after throwing into Cousin Benedict's ear, which it touched lightly, the most intense but also the most ironical buzzing of its coleopter wings.

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The "Albatross," like a huge coleopter, glided gently over the mighty city.

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