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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Living under stones: a term applicable to many insects, and especially to certain blind ground-beetles so accustomed to this life that they have assumed the characteristics of true cave species.

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  • Beetles living under rocks? That's just lapidicolous.

    August 28, 2008