coleopteron

[ koh-lee-op-ter-uhn, kol-ee- ]

noun

, plural co·le·op·ter·a [koh-lee-, op, -ter-, uh, kol-ee-].

1. a coleopterous insect; beetle.

Word History and Origins

Origin of coleopteron¹

First recorded in 1755–65; from New Latin, from Greek: singular of Coleoptera

Example Sentences

Platypsyllus, therefore, is a good Coleopteron, and in all the characters in which it so strongly approaches the Mallophaga it offers merely an illustration of modification due to food habit and environment.

From Project Gutenberg

It is not recorded that Adams, who found the colossal antediluvian pachyderm in a thick-ribbed mountain of Siberian ice, ran wild over his trouvaille; but Schmidl, in describing the natural history of the caves of the Karst, speaks of an eminent entomologist as "der glückliche Entdecker," the happy discoverer of a new coleopteron, in one of those dim caverns.

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How long we remained like this I cannot tell, for we were both afraid to look and see the my smudge on the pavement indicating a hero's end; but eventually, by mutual arrangement, we opened our eyes, and then we saw—not a smudge, but Coleopteron still advancing quite unconcerned.

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For a moment I thought that Frederick had been poisoned, and then I realised the truth, for there in the hot milk floated the corpse of Coleopteron.

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"I can't stand it any longer," cried Frederick, to the amazement of those sitting about us outside the café, "I shall go mad!" and, leaping up from his seat, he rushed across the promenade and, taking from his pocket a picture-postcard of some Hungarian beauty, he coaxed Coleopteron to walk on to it, then bore him triumphantly back and deposited him upon the leaf of a palm which overhung our table.

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