scarabæus

[Lat.scarabæus, scar a be us = a beatle, a scarab.] Entom.: A genus of Coprine, and the typical one of Scarabæide. The semicircular clypeus is divided by sharp notches into a series of triangular teeth; the fore legs are retracted. About seventy species are known, all from the Old Worid. Scarabæus sacer , formerly A teuch us sacer , is the sacred beetle of the Egyptians, often represented on Egyptian monuments, though Latreille thought it was S. egyptiorum, a golden-green species. Both deposit their eggs in pellets of dung, which they roll with their hind legs into a hole dug for its reception. scăr-a-beě, *scăr-a-bie, s . [Lat. scarabœus .] 1. Lit .: A beetle; any insect of the genus Scarabæus (q. v.). 2. Fig .: Applied to an individual, as a term of reproach. "Such as you render the throne of majesty, the court, suspected and contemptible; you are scarabees that bat ten in her dung."- Beaum . & Flet .: Elder Brother , iv. 1. scăr-a-boid, a. [Eng. scarab ; -oid .] Of or per Anat.: Of, pertaining to, or connected with the taining to the scarabæide (q. v.). IMG:content-1003.png:[blocks in formation] (1) The same as SCAPE (2) s. (q. v.). (2) The same as SCAPELLUS (q. v.). 3. Ornith.: Keil's name for the stem of a feather. scar (1), *scaur, *scarre (1), skerre, skerry, s . [Icel. sker a skerry (q.v.); allied to Eng. share, and shear ; Dan.skiær ; Sw.skär .] A rock, a cliff; a precipitous bank; a bare and broken place on the side of a hill or mountain. It forms or enters into many place names, as Scar borough, Scar cliff , .