Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The typical genus of the family Staphylinidæ, formerly corresponding to that family in a broad sense.
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(_Ephemerae_) -- which pounced upon it as fiercely as the water staphylinus does on the luckless tadpole, but, fortunately for the
Essays in Natural History and Agriculture Thomas Garnett 1838
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