scarabaeus

How to use scarabaeus in a sentence

• That is the reason the scarabaeus has no eyes, so the old ones say.

  Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest | Katharine Berry Judson

• And as much may be said of the larva of scarabaeus pentodon, a fellow-boarder of the Oryctes and the Cetonia.

  More Hunting Wasps | J. Henri Fabre

• The scarabaeus was the insignium or the 'arms,' of a very distinguished and very rare patrician family.

  The Works of Edgar Allan Poe | Edgar Allan Poe

• To the centre is suspended by a small ring a scarabaeus of solid gold inlaid with lapis lazuli.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 15, Slice 4 | Various

• There must be two kinds of hair on his tail, and on his tongue an excrescence in the form of the sacred beetle scarabaeus.

  An Egyptian Princess, Complete | Georg Ebers