Definitions for Coleoptera

Coleoptera Co·le·op·ter·a

Spelling: [koh-lee-op-ter-uh, kol-ee-]
IPA: /ˌkoʊ liˈɒp tər ə, ˌkɒl i-/

Coleoptera is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 667 anagrams from letters in Coleoptera (aceelooprt).

Definitions for Coleoptera

noun

  1. the order comprising the beetles.
  2. a coleopterous insect; beetle.

Origin of Coleoptera

1755-65; New Latin Greek koleóptera, neuter plural of koleópteros sheath-winged, equivalent to koleo- (combining form representing koleón sheath, scabbard; see -o-) + -p

Examples for Coleoptera

So in a less degree does the head of the larvæ of certain Neuroptera and Coleoptera.

Like all of the Coleoptera, the Mercurians were hexapoda (six legged).

He had specimens of Lasius niger who exploited a flock of Coleoptera.

There is a great preponderance of Coleoptera over the other orders.

This is also true, but to a less extent of the larv of the Coleoptera.

Pterygium: a lateral expansion of the snout of some Coleoptera.

Vaginata: sheathed: an obsolete ordinal term for Coleoptera.

Sinciput: in Coleoptera; that part of the vertex between the eyes.

Give me the Coleoptera, and the kings of the Coleoptera are the beetles!

Umbones: two movable spines on the sides of prothorax in some Coleoptera.

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