Word Meanings - SCARABOID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the family Scarabæidæ, an extensive group which includes the Egyptian scarab, the tumbleding, and many similar lamellicorn beetles.

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• LAMELLICORNIA
  A group of lamellicorn, plant-eating beetles; -- called also Lamellicornes.
• BEETLESTOCK
  The handle of a beetle.
• FAMILY
  A groupe of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoölogy
• SIMILARY
  Similar. Rhyming cadences of similarly words. South.
• SCARABOID
  Of or pertaining to the family Scarabæidæ, an extensive group which includes the Egyptian scarab, the tumbleding, and many similar lamellicorn beetles.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• EXTENSIVELY
  To a great extent; widely; largely; as, a story is extensively circulated.
• SCARABAEUS
  See SCARAB
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• SCARAB; SCARABEE
  Any one of numerous species of lamellicorn beetles of the genus Scarabæus, or family Scarabæidæ, especially the sacred, or Egyptian, species .
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• SIMILARLY
  In a similar manner.
• EGYPTIAN
  Pertaining to Egypt, in Africa. Egyptian bean. The beanlike fruit of an aquatic plant , somewhat resembling the water lily. See under Bean, -- Egyptian cross. See Illust. of Cross. -- Egyptian thorn , a medium-sized tree . It is one of
• EXTENSIVENESS
  The state of being extensive; wideness; largeness; extent; diffusiveness.
• EXTENSIVE
  1. Having wide extent; of much superficial extent; expanded; large; broad; wide; comprehensive; as, an extensive farm; an extensive lake; an extensive sphere of operations; extensive benevolence; extensive greatness. 2. Capable of being extended.
• GROUP
  A variously limited assemblage of animals or planta, having some resemblance, or common characteristics in form or structure. The term has different uses, and may be made to include certain species of a genus, or a whole genus, or certain genera,
• LAMELLICORN
  A lamellicorn insect. (more info) Having antennæ terminating in a group of flat lamellæ; -- said of certain coleopterous insects. Terminating in a group of flat lamellæ; -- said of antennæ. -- n.
• GROUPER
  One of several species of valuable food fishes of the genus Epinephelus, of the family Serranidæ, as the red grouper, or brown snapper , and the black grouper, or warsaw , both from Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. The tripletail .
• GROUPING
  The disposal or relative arrangement of figures or objects, as in, drawing, painting, and sculpture, or in ornamental design.
• SIMILARITY
  The quality or state of being similar; likeness; resemblance; as, a similarity of features. Hardly is there a similarity detected between two or three facts, than men hasten to extend it to all. Sir W. Hamilton.
• DISSIMILARLY
  In a dissimilar manner; in a varied style. With verdant shrubs dissimilarly gay. C. Smart.
• SUBGROUP
  A subdivision of a group, as of animals. Darwin.
• WENLOCK GROUP
  The middle subdivision of the Upper Silurian in Great Britain; -- so named from the typical locality in Shropshire.
• AGGROUPMENT
  Arrangement in a group or in groups; grouping.
• LUDLOW GROUP
  A subdivision of the British Upper Silurian lying below the Old Red Sandstone; -- so named from the Ludlow, in Western England. See the Chart of Geology.
• AGROUPMENT
  See AGGROUPMENT
• DISSIMILAR
  Not similar; unlike; heterogeneous; as, the tempers of men are as dissimilar as their features. This part very dissimilar to any other. Boyle.
• LARAMIE GROUP
  An extensive series of strata, principally developed in the Rocky Mountain region, as in the Laramie Mountains, and formerly supposed to be of the Tertiary age, but now generally regarded as Cretaceous, or of intermediate and transitional character.