Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A necrophagous beetle of the family Silphidæ; a sexton-or burying-beetle; a carrion-beetle; a grave-digger. See cuts under Silpha, burying-beetle, and sexton-beetle.
- Of or pertaining to the family Silphidæ.
Wiktionary
- n. Any carrion beetle of the family Silphidae
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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Paracelsus
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synovia, alkahest, nostoc, sylph, undine, zinc, laudanum, homunculus, Paracelsus, Celsus, zincum, Archidoxes of Magic and 6 more...
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