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Meanings of meloe in English

Russian
майки
Portuguese
lampromeloe
Spanish
carraleja
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Examples for "lampromeloe"
Examples for "lampromeloe"
1
He watched a black oil beetle crawl across his boot top.
The marrowbone marble company
2
Black oil beetle My friends and I spotted this large beetle on the Ballycotton cliffs in Co Cork.
The Irish Times
3
Some of them provide me with the oil beetle and the Sitaris, rare finds at one time, today of no use to me.
The Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters o...
4
A number of Oil beetles were strolling suspiciously about in the neighborhood, and some little black Ichneumon flies were seen running about among the holes.
Our Common Insects / A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fie...
Usage of meloe in English
1
Do you think it really the larva of meloe?
The Poet at the Breakfast-Table
2
The last time I saw the Scarabee he was still at work on the meloe question.
The Poet at the Breakfast-Table
3
And besides, I take an interest in entomology, and have my own opinion on the meloe question.
The Poet at the Breakfast-Table
4
For an account of Sitaris and Meloe, see Sharp's "Insects," II., page 272.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 / A Record of His Work...
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Sitaris and Meloe, two genera of coleopterous insects, are referred to by Lubbock (op.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 / A Record of His Work...
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Sitaris and Meloe are beetles which live "at the expense of bees of the genus Anthophora."
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 / A Record of His Work...
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Amply nourished this Meloe then acquires her normal size, the size in which she usually figures in the collections.
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