Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of numerous insects of the order Coleoptera; a beetle.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the Coleoptera; a beetle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of the order of Coleoptera.
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- noun Any
insect of the orderColeoptera ; includes thebeetles ,weevils andfireflies
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Other noteworthy fauna include cave-dwelling species such as a collembolan Tricanthella frigida, an endemic found in Gavarnie cirque at 2,500 m, and coleopteran Tipnus unicolor and Speonomus bolivari.
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Russell Coope, The climatic significance of coleopteran assemblages from the Eemian deposits in southern England, Geologie en Mijnbouw / Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 79 (2/3): 257-267 (2000)
Bürger and Cubasch: Are multiproxy climate reconstructions robust? « Climate Audit 2005
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This system also allowed the transfer of lepidopteran-active crystal genes into coleopteran-active BT strains for the generation of new hybrid clones active against both orders.
Chapter 8 1994
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CSIRO in Australia isolated 200 samples of BT; these were screened against Tribolium castaneum to find a bacterium effective against stored-product coleopteran pests (Beckett,1989).
Chapter 8 1994
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Maize MON863 expresses a variant Bacillus thuringiensis cry3Bb1 gene which confers protection against coleopteran pests, principally the corn rootworm (Diabrotica spp.).
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The trait, for which the deal was struck, provides protection from below-ground coleopteran insects, including corn rootworm, a major corn pest in the United States, it also said in a statement.
Reuters: Top News 2010
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It was hoped that this subspecies would have potential for controlling coleopteran pests (McGaughey,
Chapter 8 1994
dhuber commented on the word coleopteran
As in: "That insect presents certain coleopteran characteristics, but the lack of wing covers indicates that it is not actually a beetle."
November 14, 2007
mollusque commented on the word coleopteran
The wing covers are called elytra (singular elytron).
November 14, 2007