Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of beetles of the family Malacodermidæ, having the head prolonged like a rostrum with the antennæ at its base, and the final joints of the antennæ as long as the preceding ones.
- noun A genus of butterflies.
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Alexander, however, chanced to find a guide in exact correspondence with what the Pythia had foretold when he was a child, that a lycus should conduct him into Persia.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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