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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A family of two-eyed aquatic adephagous Coleoptera, or predatory beetles, having the metasternum destitute of an antecoxal piece, but prolonged in a triangular process posteriorly, the antennas slender, filiform, or setaceous, and the abdomen with six segments.

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