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Webster 1913 Edition

Scarabee

{

Scar′ab

,

Scar′a-bee

, }

Noun.

[L.

scarabaeus

; cf. F.

scarabée

.]

1.

(Zool.)

Any one of numerous species of lamellicorn beetles of the genus

Scarabaeus

, or family

Scarabaeidae

, especially the sacred, or Egyptian, species (

Scarabaeus sacer

, and

Scarabaeus Egyptiorum

).