Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In entomology, lying one partly over another: applied to elytra and wings.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Zoöl.) Overlapping, as the elytra of certain beetles.

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  • The WMDs are now in Syria and have been since the long six months Bush was forced by the stupid democrats to wait on an impotent and complicant U. N..to do nothing but allow time for Saddam to move the weapons France, Germany and Russia had, illegally, sold him.

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