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Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians
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scarabaeus
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WordNet
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n. scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians [syn: scarab , Scarabaeus sacer ] [also: scarabaei (pl)]
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n. A scarab.
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Scarabaeus \Scar`a*b[ae]"us\, n. Same as Scarab in both senses.
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The genus Scarabaeus consists of a number of Old World dung beetle species, including the "sacred scarab beetle", Scarabaeus sacer . These beetles feed exclusively on dung , which they accomplish by rolling a piece of dung some distance from where it was ...
Usage examples of scarabaeus.
As he advanced in life, in fact, although he never forgot his rude natal countryside, he felt that new links were daily binding him more closely to those heaths and mountains on which his heart had been so often thrilled with the intense joy of discovery, and that it was indeed in this soil, to him so full of delight, amid its beautiful hymenoptera and scarabaei, that he would wish to be buried.
There was free choice for the visitors of this pattern-room in the matter of mummy-cases and cloths, as well as of necklets, scarabaei, statuettes, Uza-eyes, girdles, head-rests, triangles, split-rings, staves, and other symbolic objects, which were attached to the dead as sacred amulets, or bound up in the wrappings.
Yet with what interest and lucidity has Fabre succeeded in expounding the complex morphoses of the obscure and miserable larva of the Sitaris, the curious intestine of the Scarabaeus, the secret of the spawning of the weevil, and the ingenious mechanisms of the musical instruments of the Decticus and the Cicada.