Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of numerous beetles of the superfamily Scarabaeoidea, formerly Lamellicornia; a scarabaeoid.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having lamellæ or a lamellate structure, as the antennæ of an insect.
- Having lamellate antennæ, as an insect; of or pertaining to the Lamellicornia.
- noun A lamellicorn beetle; any member of the Lamellicornia, as a scarab, dung-beetle, stag-beetle, cockchafer, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having antennæ terminating in a group of flat lamellæ; -- said of certain coleopterous insects.
- adjective Terminating in a group of flat lamellæ; -- said of antennæ.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective zoology Having antennæ terminating in a group of flat lamellæ; -- said of certain coleopterous insects.
- adjective zoology Terminating in a group of flat lamellæ; -- said of antennæ.
- noun A lamellicorn insect.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I believe that if it were possible to take a retinal print -- which it someday will be -- you would have a perfect picture of what it was I saw, Beyond doubt it was a lamellicorn, one of the copridae.
The Beetle Richard Marsh
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Laparostict: that series of lamellicorn beetles in which the abdominal spiracles are situated on the connecting membrane between the dorsal and ventral rings.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Bulla: a blister or blister-like structure: the shield-like sclerite that closes the opening to the trachea in lamellicorn larvae: in Ephemerida
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Anthobian: feeding on flowers; applied to certain lamellicorn
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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After reading Landois 'paper I have been working at the stridulating organ in the lamellicorn beetles, in expectation of finding it sexual, but I have only found it as yet in two cases, and in these it was equally developed in both sexes.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
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All Rights Reserved to Tooth & Nail Records Lyrics: on a cold December, just before dawn as the sun said "hello" to the sky the mantis prayed while the lamellicorn tumbled and rolled in a threadbare tie the holland lops in the Callicoon glades indignantly thumped their feet and hopped away when they cut their noses on the sharp-tipped blades (since the grass doesn't mind in the least) the heat pad waiting in the chicken-wire hutch where the does from the netherlands stay but that dry alfalfa don't taste like much and we're tired of the timothy hay
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