scarabaeus
noun
scarabaei
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pluralof scarabaeus.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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I saw a collection of scarabaei, or beetles, which were anciently worshiped in this country.
From A Trip Abroad by Don Carlos Janes
A thousand mystic meanings were evolved from this first idea, each in some subtle sense connected with one or other of the daily acts or usages of life, so that scarabaei were multiplied ad infinitum.
From Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt by G. (Gaston) Maspero
"Give me the names of the better-known species of the British scarabaei," said he.
From Tales of Terror and Mystery by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The outlines of the gazelles, scarabaei, and flowers are as clean-cut and as elegant as if drawn with the pen upon a wall- surface or a page of papyrus.
From Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt by G. (Gaston) Maspero
Some lean Bedouins, who exercise the office of excavators, and sleep hard by in holes like jackals, advance to sell us scarabaei, blue-glass trinkets that are half fossilised, and feet or hands of the dead.
From Egypt (La Mort de Philae) by William Peter Baines
