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.