Crossword-Solution: MELOE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Meloe | - | A genus of beetles without wings, but having short oval elytra; the oil beetles. These beetles are sometimes used instead of cantharides for raising blisters. See Oil beetle, under Oil. |
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| Oil beetle. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MELOE (5)
And now he was determined, if it cost him the effort of all his remaining days, to close another discussion and put forever to rest the anxious doubts about the larva of meloe.
Sitaris and Meloe are beetles which live "at the expense of bees of the genus Anthophora." The eggs are laid not in but near the bees' nest; in the early stage the larva is active and has the instinct to seize any hairy object near it, and in this way they are carried by the Anthophora to the nest.
For an account of Sitaris and Meloe, see Sharp's "Insects," II., page 272.); or whether the larvae pass through an early stage, as with Sitaris or Meloe, or cling to the bodies of the females.
Amply nourished this Meloe then acquires her normal size, the size in which she usually figures in the collections.
Most of the insects belonged to arctic types, and they were numerous in individuals.* [As _Meloe,_ and some flower-feeding lamellicorns.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1944).