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Scarab

noun
1.
Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.  Synonyms: scarabaeus, Scarabaeus sacer.



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genus Scarabaeus


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... give an added value to everything except an egg. In my own case I know how it was with regard to the Egyptian scarab. For years I felt that I could never rest satisfied until I had gone to Egypt and had personally broken into the tomb of some sleeping Pharaoh or some crumbly old Rameses, and with my own hands had ravished from it a mummified specimen of that fabled beetle which the ...
— Roughing it De Luxe • Irvin S. Cobb


Words linked to "Scarab" :   genus Scarabaeus, dung beetle, Scarabaeus sacer, scarabaeus


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