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Sentence Examples
Most surprisingly, the Scarabaeus that was the most abundant medium-sized scarab at the site appeared to have no associated Sphaeroceridae.
Examples from Classical Literature
It has been suggested that Baalzebub was the dung-beetle, scarabaeus pillularius, worshipped in Egypt.
To be 'of the blood of the scarabaeus,' is merely to be one of that family of which the scarabaeus is the insignium.
And as much may be said of the larva of scarabaeus pentodon, a fellow-boarder of the Oryctes and the Cetonia.
The scarabaeus was the insignium or the 'arms,' of a very distinguished and very rare patrician family.
To the centre is suspended by a small ring a scarabaeus of solid gold inlaid with lapis lazuli.
It is an Egyptian scarabaeus, found, if you please, in a pyramid.
That is the reason the scarabaeus has no eyes, so the old ones say.
I lost some of the specimens, but those which I preserved belonged to the genera Colymbetes, Hydroporus, Hydrobius, Notaphus, Cynucus, Adimonia, and Scarabaeus.
