Definition of Order coleoptera

1. Noun. Beetles.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Coleoptera

order Casuariiformes
order Casuarinales
order Caudata
order Cestida
order Cetacea
order Charadriiformes
order Charales
order Chelonethida
order Chelonia
order Chiroptera
order Chlorococcales
order Chytridiales
order Ciconiiformes
order Cilioflagellata
order Coccidia
order Coleoptera
order Collembola
order Columbiformes
order Colymbiformes
order Commelinales
order Coniferales
order Conodonta
order Conodontophorida
order Coraciiformes
order Cordaitales
order Corrodentia
order Crocodilia
order Crocodylia
order Cuculiformes
order Cycadales

Literary usage of Order coleoptera

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

1. The Animal Parasites of Man by Harold Benjamin Fantham, Maximilian Gustav Christian Carl Braun (1916)
"FVT] Order. Coleoptera. The larva; of beetles, similarly to those of some other ... order coleoptera."

2. Lake Maxinkuckee: A Physical and Biological Survey by Barton Warren Evermann, Howard Walton Clark (1920)
"order coleoptera THE BEETLES No special attention was given to the beetles except a few species found in and about the water. No one could help noticing the ..."

3. Narrative of an Expedition to the Sources of St. Peter's River, Lake by William Hypolitus Keating, Stephen Harriman Long, Thomas Say, Lewis David von Schweinitz, James Edward Calhoun, Joseph Lovell (1824)
"This species is much smaller than either of the preceding and is comparatively rare. It occurred in Vermilion Lake. E. CLASS INSECTA. order coleoptera. ..."

4. An Authentic History of Lancaster County: In the State of Pennsylvania by Jacob Isidor Mombert (1869)
"order coleoptera. Atthe head of the class, usually, is placed the order ... of which there are numerous species, and more or less variety: order coleoptera. ..."

5. The Natural History of the Insects Mentioned in Shakspeare's Plays: With by Robert Patterson (1841)
"... to the order Coleoptera. They are beetles less in size than those we have been considering, and dwelling not on the land, but in the water. ..."

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