The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coleopteral \Co`le*op"ter*al\, Coleopterous \Co`le*op"ter*ous\a. [Gr. ?.] (Zo["o]l.) Having wings covered with a case or sheath; belonging to the Coleoptera.
Wiktionary
a. of or pertaining to beetles of the order ''Coleoptera''
Usage examples of "coleopterous".
If one happened to pass through Atkinson Street on his way to the Athenaeum, he would notice a large, square, painted, brick house, in which lived a leading representative of old-fashioned coleopterous Calvinism, and from which emerged one of the liveliest of literary butterflies.
Hyacinth Cottage was a pretty place enough, a little too much choked round with bushes, and too much overrun with climbing-roses, which, in the season of slugs and rose-bugs, were apt to show so brown about the leaves and so coleopterous about the flowers, that it might be questioned whether their buds and blossoms made up for these unpleasant animal combinations,--especially as the smell of whale-oil soap was very commonly in the ascendant over that of the roses.
To test the truth of this anticipation I have arranged the plants of twelve countries, and the coleopterous insects of two districts, into two nearly equal masses, the species of the larger genera on one side, and those of the smaller genera on the other side, and it has invariably proved to be the case that a larger proportion of the species on the side of the larger genera present varieties, than on the side of the smaller genera.
But I think he has learned something else of his coleopterous friends.