scarabeoid

and n. See scarabæoid. Scar a be us, n. See Scarabæus. scaraboid (skar'a-boid), a. and n. [ But these lenticular and scaraboid gems are precisely those which the amateur pardonably neglects. The Academy , Oct. 6, 1888, No. 857, p. 229. II. n. 1. In entom . , a scarabæoid beetle.-2. An ornament, amulet, etc., resembling a scarab, but not complete as to all its parts, or otherwise differing from a true scarab; also, an imitation scarab, as one of Phenic i an or Greek origin, as distinguished from a true or Egyptian scarab. From the Crime an tombs we learn that the favourite form of signet-ring in the fourth century was a scarab or scaraboid, mounted in a gold swivel-ring, and having a subject in intaglio on the under side. C. T. Newton, Art and Archæol., p. 395. The design on a crystal scaraboid in the British Museum. A. S. Murray, Greek Sculpture, I. 123, note.