Definition of Scarabaei

1. scarabaeus [n] - See also: scarabaeus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scarabaei

scapulohumeral reflex
scapulomancy
scapuloperiosteal reflex
scapulopexy
scapus
scapus pili
scar
scar cancer
scar cancer of the lungs
scar carcinoma
scar tissue
scarab
scarab beetle
scarabaean
scarabaei (current term)
scarabaeid
scarabaeid beetle
scarabaeoid
scarabaeus
scarabaeuses
scarabee
scarabees
scarablike
scaraboid
scarabs
scarabæid
scaramouches
scarbroite
scarce

Literary usage of Scarabaei

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians: Including Their Private Life by John Gardner Wilkinson (1842)
"The devices engraved on scarabaei, rings, and other objects of ornamental ... The greater number consisted of scarabaei, mounted upon a gold ring passing ..."

2. Manners and customs of the ancient Egyptians: Including Their Private Life by John Gardner Wilkinson (1837)
"The devices engraved on scarabaei, rings, and other objects of ornamental ... The greater number consisted of scarabaei, mounted upon a gold ring passing ..."

3. The Universe: Or, The Infinitely Great and the Infinitely Little by Félix-Archimède Pouchet (1884)
"... and the larvae of the ichneumon issue by numerous openings and spin silky cocoons on the 79. I'm,: I;.- i> .>, or Sacred scarabaei t,;.'. ..."

4. Handbook to the Antiquities in the British Museum: Being a Description of by William Sandys Wright Vaux (1851)
"scarabaei, or beetles, manufactured out of almost every known material, ... The most remarkable scarabaei in the Museum Collection are:—No. ..."

5. The Boy Travellers in the Far East: Part Fourth, Adventures of Two Youths in by Thomas Wallace Knox (1905)
"This large one was deposited in place of the heart of our desiccated friend in the box, and these necklaces, principally composed of scarabaei, were around ..."

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