coleopteron
Americannoun
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coleoptera
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of coleopteron
First recorded in 1755–65; from New Latin, from Greek: singular of Coleoptera
Example Sentences
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Amongst his collection of insects were some very remarkable examples of new staphylins, a species of carnivorous coleoptera with eyes placed above their head; it was a kind supposed to be peculiar to New Caledonia.
From Dick Sands, the Boy Captain by Ellen E. Frewer
A great quantity of coleoptera assembled on the flat roof of the Observatory, where the ashes and lapilli were heaped up two decimetres in height.
From The Eruption of Vesuvius in 1872 by Luigi Palmieri
The country people here call it the turnip-fly and black-dolphin; but I know it to be one of the coleoptera; the “chrysomela oleracea, saltatoria, femoribus posticis crassissimis.”
From The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 by Henry Morley
In the course of an hour or two he had adorned his hat with a variety of orthoptera, coleoptera, and all the other opteras known to the insect-catching profession.
From The Mystery of Metropolisville by Edward Eggleston
Personally, did I belong to this order of coleoptera, I should sing extremely small, and remain a bachelor, and creep or fly about quietly after dark, and not affect ladies’ society much.
From The Idler Magazine, Volume III, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various
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