Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The typical genus of wax-producing bugs, with semicircular wings, of the family Flatidæ.
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Examples
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I regret that I did not preserve specimens, but I have reason to think that they are the larvæ of the _Flata limbata_, or of some other closely allied species [1], though I have not seen in Ceylon any of the wax produced by the _flata_.
Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836
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The specimen, which was found in rocks in Herefordshire, represents a new species of ostracod, and has been named Nasunaris flata.
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Poftea Defpotae adpellatio tran - flata ad praecipuae dignitatis proce - res aulae Byzantinae.
Lexicon vniversae rei nvmariae vetervm et praecipve Graecorvm ac Romanorvm: cvm observationibvs ... Johann Christoph Rasche 1785
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