Definitions
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- proper noun A taxonomic
suborder within theorder Coleoptera — a very great number ofbeetles having theprothoracic pleuron not externally visible but fused with the trochantin.
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Examples
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The Polyphaga ( "Poly" = many, "phaga" = feed) are true to the description of the name.
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Very few families of the suborder Polyphaga are completely aquatic.
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Rather than fitting neatly inside one of the 4 beetle suborders, these insects are surprisingly old, diverging from the lineage that led to the giant suborder Polyphaga very near in time to the origin of the beetles themselves. species near a woodland pond in an old growth oak forest in upstate New York.
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