Definition of Popillia

1. Noun. A genus of Scarabaeidae.

Exact synonyms: Genus Popillia
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Family Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeidae
Member holonyms: Japanese Beetle, Popillia Japonica

Lexicographical Neighbors of Popillia

Poole
Pooler
Poona
Poonam
Pooterism
Pop Art
Popayán
Pope
Pope Alexander VI
Pope Julius
Popean
Popemobile
Popemobiles
Popes
Popeye
Popillia
Popillia japonica
Poplar Bluff
Popocatepetl
Popoloca
Popovich
Popperian
Poppy
Poppy Day
Pops
Popsicle
Popsicles
Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Pal
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Literary usage of Popillia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Entomologist by British Trust for Entomology, Royal Entomological Society of London (1840)
"popillia virescens. Bright gold-green, very shining: elytra testaceous, with a metallic ... popillia nit Ida. Bright gold-green; antennae, elytra and legs ..."

2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1786)
"... not popillia. I was then in a hurry to fend my ... the family of popillia alone occurs; ... wife popillia, though the common editions of the ..."

3. The Zoological Record ...: Being Records of Zoological Literature by Zoological Society of London (1895)
"... n. subg. of popillia ; KOLBE, p. 209, Ent. Zeit. ... ng, for popillia minúscula, Har. ; KOLBE, p. 259, Ent. Zeit. ..."

4. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography by William Smith, Mahmoud Saba (1857)
"... the Via popillia (regarded by the Itineraries as a branch of the Via Appia), which, in its course from Capua to Rhegium, traversed the whole province ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"It was probably only a small fishing village until it became the point of junction of the Via Postumia and the Via popillia (see Aquí ..."

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