Crossword-Solution: COLEOPTERA
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| Coleoptera | 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 maxillae) adapted for chewing. Most of the Coleoptera are known as beetles and weevils. |
We have 14 clues for the answer “COLEOPTERA”
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| ANIMAL kingdom, largest order of the | 1 answer |
| BLACK cocktail (order) | 1 answer |
| COLEOPTAN | 1 answer |
| GROUND beetle (order) | 1 answer |
| POWDER post beetle (order) | 1 answer |
| ROVE beetle (order) | 1 answer |
| coleopterous | 1 answer |
| rove beetle | 1 answer |
| BEETLE regarded as harbinger of death | 2 answers |
| powder post beetle | 2 answers |
| water beetle | 2 answers |
| ground beetle | 5 answers |
| Ladybird | 5 answers |
| click beetle | 27 answers |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Thirty-seven species of Arachnidae, which I brought home, will be sufficient to prove that I was not paying overmuch attention to the generally favoured order of Coleoptera.
COLEOPTERA.—Beetles, an order of Insects, having a biting mouth and the first pair of wings more or less horny, forming sheaths for the second pair, and usually meeting in a straight line down the middle of the back.
Stephens, author of 'A Manual of British Coleoptera,' 1839, and other works.); his cabinet is more magnificent than the most zealous entomologist could dream of; he appears to be a very good-humoured pleasant little man.
There is a very curious point in the astounding proportion of Coleoptera that are apterous; and I think I have guessed the reason, viz., that powers of flight would be injurious to insects inhabiting a confined locality, and expose them to be blown to the sea: to test this, I find that the insects inhabiting the Dezerte Grande, a quite small islet, would be still more exposed to this danger, and here the proportion of apterous insects is even considerably greater than on Madeira Proper.
This is more especially difficult in those Orders, such as Orthoptera, Hymenoptera, and Coleoptera, in which the two sexes rarely differ much in colour; for we are then left to mere analogy.