Meaning & use
Coleopter
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A beetle, or more broadly, an insect belonging to the order Coleoptera.
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The museum's insect collection included a dazzling coleopter with an iridescent green shell.
Entomologists have catalogued hundreds of thousands of coleopter species worldwide.
A note on using this word
The name comes from the Greek "koleos" (sheath) and "pteron" (wing), describing how a beetle's hardened forewings sheathe its flight wings; the same root also named an experimental 1950s French aircraft, the Coleoptere.
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