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Definition of Scaraboid

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

2. n. A scaraboid beetle.

Definition of Scaraboid

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Scaraboid

1. Of or pertaining to the family Scarabaeidae, an extensive group which includes the Egyptian scarab, the tumbleding, and many similar lamellicorn beetles. Origin: Scarab. A scaraboid beetle. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Scaraboid

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

1. A Guide to the Exhibition Galleries of the British Museum, Bloomsbury by British Museum (1888)
"Chalcedony scaraboid. Man standing. Inscribed with the name of ... Lapis-lazuli scaraboid. Female figure between hawks and lion. Inscribed with the name of ..."

2. A Catalogue of Engraved Gems in the British Museum (Department of Greek and by Arthur Hamilton Smith, Alexander Stuart Murray (1888)
"scaraboid. Castellani Coll. 485. Term of Hermes to r.; in front, ... scaraboid. Greece. 488. Herakles standing to 1. over prostrate centaur, and striking ..."

3. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1891)
"(3) Chalcedony scaraboid, from Greece (?), now in the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge. A woman seated at her toilet ; before her an attendant with mirror I ..."

4. A Guide to the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities in the British Museum by Arthur Hamilton Smith (1899)
"scaraboid from Greece : a Satyr carrying a full wineskin on his back. ... A finely executed crystal scaraboid of a lion attacking a stag. ..."

5. The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica: A (1907)
"752) that, while the design on the face presents evidently the same subject which occurs on a scaraboid found in the treasury of Curium in ..."

6. A Guide to the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities in the British Museum by Arthur Hamilton Smith (1902)
"The Phoenicians employed both the scarab and its simplified form the scaraboid. The Etruscans used the scarab constantly, ..."

7. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus by John Linton Myres (1914)
"II I, xxviii, 14., white steatite scaraboid: a nude girl washing her hair ... 8., SILVER RING of the same style as the preceding group: crystal scaraboid, ..."

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