Scarabaeus is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.
You can make 412 anagrams from letters in scarabaeus (aaabcerssu).
1400-50; late Middle English Latin; compare Greek kárabos kind of beetle
To be 'of the blood of the scarabaeus,' is merely to be one of that family of which the scarabaeus is the insignium.
The scarabaeus was the insignium or the 'arms,' of a very distinguished and very rare patrician family.
The beetle, or scarabaeus, is a symbol with this ancient people of "eternal duration."
That is the reason the scarabaeus has no eyes, so the old ones say.
The scarabaeus, or sacred beetle, was the adornment of rings and necklaces; even the men wore necklaces and rings and chains.
It has been suggested that Baalzebub was the dung-beetle, scarabaeus pillularius, worshipped in Egypt.
It is an Egyptian scarabaeus, found, if you please, in a pyramid.
scarabaeus lowers his head, arches his back, draws himself up on his twitching legs.
To the centre is suspended by a small ring a scarabaeus of solid gold inlaid with lapis lazuli.
And as much may be said of the larva of scarabaeus pentodon, a fellow-boarder of the Oryctes and the Cetonia.
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