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Definition of Coleoptera
1. Noun. Beetles.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Class Hexapoda, Class Insecta, Hexapoda, Insecta
Member holonyms: Beetle, Cicindelidae, Family Cicindelidae, Coccinellidae, Family Coccinellidae, Carabidae, Family Carabidae, Family Lampyridae, Lampyridae, Cerambycidae, Family Cerambycidae, Chrysomelidae, Family Chrysomelidae, Dermestidae, Family Dermestidae, Cleridae, Family Cleridae, Lamellicornia, Superfamily Lamellicornia, Elateridae, Family Elateridae, Dytiscidae, Family Dytiscidae, Family Gyrinidae, Gyrinidae, Anobiidae, Family Anobiidae, Curculionidae, Family Curculionidae, Family Meloidae, Meloidae, Family Ipidae, Family Scolytidae, Ipidae, Scolytidae, Family Staphylinidae, Staphylinidae, Family Tenebrionidae, Tenebrionidae, Bruchidae, Family Bruchidae
Definition of Coleoptera
1. n. pl. An order of insects having the anterior pair of wings (elytra) hard and horny, and serving as coverings for the posterior pair, which are membranous, and folded transversely under the others when not in use. The mouth parts form two pairs of jaws (mandibles and maxillæ) adapted for chewing. Most of the Coleoptera are known as beetles and weevils.
Definition of Coleoptera
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Medical Definition of Coleoptera
1. The largest order of insects, comprising the beetles and weevils. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coleoptera
Literary usage of Coleoptera
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Economic Entomology for the Farmer and the Fruit Grower, and for Use as a by John Bernhard Smith (1906)
"THE coleoptera, '' horn-winged'' insects, or beetles, are distinguished by the
... Tarsi in coleoptera.— The coleoptera, in which the head is *, normally ..."
2. Ceylon: An Account of the Island, Physical, Historical, and Topographical by James Emerson Tennent (1859)
"What Darwin remarks of the coleoptera of Brazil is nearly as applicable to the
same order of insects in Ceylon : “ The number ..."
3. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales by Linnean Society of New South Wales (1877)
"... FLS It was my wish and intention to have given you, on the present occasion,
a complete description of the coleoptera collected during the cruise of the ..."
4. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1869)
"On the coleoptera of St. Helena. By T. VERNON WOLLASTON, MA, FLS That a special
interest should attach to the productions of any island which is unusually ..."
5. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1907)
"The asterisks before the names of the families and genera indicate that these
have been found fossil in the shales. coleoptera ..."
6. Zoology: Being a Systematic Account of the General Structure, Habits by William Benjamin Carpenter, William Sweetland Dallas (1867)
"Thus the Earwig tribe, which combines, in some degree, the characters of the
coleoptera and Orthoptera, is raised by many to the rank of a distinct ..."
7. The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1876)
"General Observations on the Distribution of coleoptera. We have now passed in
review six of the most important and best known groups of the ..."
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