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- proper noun A taxonomic
order within thesuperorder Endopterygota — thebeetles .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The light reached one of them, and the word Coleoptera written in gold letters glittered mysteriously upon a vast dimness.
Lord Jim 1899
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The light reached one of them, and the word Coleoptera written in gold letters glittered mysteriously upon a vast dimness.
Lord Jim Joseph Conrad 1890
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Give me the Coleoptera, and the kings of the Coleoptera are the beetles!
The Poet at the Breakfast-Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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Give me the Coleoptera, and the kings of the Coleoptera are the beetles!
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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There is the ability to browse through the thumbnails (e.g., for a volume on beetles [Coleoptera]) for all the images ( "plates") from a given volume, which I found very helpful in picking those images that I wanted to see up close.
Creating, Managing & Pres. Dig. Assets: Electronic Biologia Centrali-Americana 2008
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There is the ability to browse through the thumbnails (e.g., for a volume on beetles [Coleoptera]) for all the images ( "plates") from a given volume, which I found very helpful in picking those images that I wanted to see up close.
Archive 2008-04-01 2008
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Patterns in ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) assemblages in single-row hedgerows in a Danish agricultural landscape.
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The ACG is estimated to possess 12,000 species of nematodes, 20,000 species of Coleoptera (beetles) and 13,000 species of Hymenoptera (ants, bees, wasps and relatives).
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Invertebrates include 87 families of insects, with 21 families each of the Coleoptera and Ledidoptera, and 8 species of shrimps.
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In Finland, 14 species, mostly beetles (Coleoptera) and bugs (Hemiptera), associated with burnt areas in forests are threatened with extinction [18].
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