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from The Century Dictionary.
- A group of Coleoptera, containing; those families of beetles all the tarsi of which are five-jointed (with some anomalous exceptions).
- A prime division of the hymenopterous family Chalcididæ, comprising 13 subfamilies, in which the tarsi are five-jointed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) An extensive division of Coleoptera, including those that normally have five-jointed tarsi. It embraces about half of all the known species of the Coleoptera.
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chained_bear commented on the word pentamera
"'I collected three beetles for you, of which all I can say is that they belong to the pentamera...'"
--O'Brian, The Wine-Dark Sea, 167
March 14, 2008
sionnach commented on the word pentamera
This has odd connotations of some kind of devil-worshipping secret society. Those nefarious beetles!
March 14, 2008