Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of lamellicorn beetles, referred to the Scarabæidæ, and made type of a subfamily Cetoniinæ, or furnishing the name of a distinct family Cetoniidæ. C. aurata is the rose-beetle or rose-chafer.
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- noun a genus of Cetoniidae
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Examples
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I kill the cetonias because they are the deadliest foes of the rose; or, rather, as they love the rose, and in loving destroy the flower, I must call the cetonia the most dangerous friend of the rose. "
Dr. Dumany's Wife M��r J��kai 1864
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"Do you know that the cetonia contains poison?" asked I. "What kind of poison?" was the inquiring response, given with great quickness.
Dr. Dumany's Wife M��r J��kai 1864
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The cetonia beetle is the deadliest foe of the rose, destroying it entirely, and since my boyhood, when I used to practise gardening at home, and was taught to kill a cetonia wherever I found it, I could not bear the sight of the glittering, green beetle.
Dr. Dumany's Wife M��r J��kai 1864
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"For instance, to believe that the rose was created by God and the cetonia by the Devil," I replied, smilingly.
Dr. Dumany's Wife M��r J��kai 1864
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All these were carefully arranged and pasted upon the teak board in a wonderful mosaic, the sun-bird's head and wings consisting of red, its neck of blue, and its breast of green cetonia-wings.
Dr. Dumany's Wife M��r J��kai 1864
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Among the C9leopetra, or beetle kind, was an admirable cetonia, claffed by me under the defignation orpheus, on account of a golden lyre moft diftindtly marked on the middle of its back j the colour of the back is an emerald green.
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"No. Because the cetonia lives on roses; and of the holy scarabæus
Dr. Dumany's Wife M��r J��kai 1864
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