scarabaeus

American  

[skar-uh-bee-uhs] / ˌskær əˈbi əs /

noun

• scarabaeuses,
  plural
• scarabaei
  plural

1. scarab.

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scarabaeus British  

/ ˌskærəˈbiːəs /

noun

1. a less common name for scarab

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• scarabaei
  plural
• scarabaeuses
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of scarabaeus

1400–50; late Middle English < Latin; compare Greek kárabos kind of beetle

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Example Sentences

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scarabaeus scarabaei

And as she stood thus, bowed and shaken with her grief, I kept my gaze ever upon that betraying scarabaeus ring.

From Peregrine's Progress by Jeffery Farnol

A small company were present of men and women, talk flowed easily and when it came my turn I told the story of the Yankee and the scarabaeus which I had heard that day.

From The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe by James Kendall Hosmer

Phtha was a sort of artisan god, who made the sun, moon, and the earth, "the father of beginnings;" his sign was the scarabaeus, or beetle, and his patron city was Memphis.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01 The Old Pagan Civilizations by John Lord

This species was the holy scarabaeus of the ancient Egyptians; it appears shortly after the commencement of the wet season, its labours continuing until the cessation of the rains, at which time it disappears.

From The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile by Sir Samuel White Baker

There were picked up also, more than a dozen replicas in bronze of the whilom sacred scarabaeus.

From The Beetle by Richard Marsh

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

On the right, scarabaei with extended wings alternate with the cartouches of King Pinotem II., and are surmounted by a lance-head frieze.

From Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt by G. (Gaston) Maspero

The collection of scarabaei includes one recording the marriage of Amenophis III. to Queen Taia, and several bearing the name of Rameses, or Sesostris, according to the Greeks.

From How to See the British Museum in Four Visits by W. Blanchard Jerrold

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

"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

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