Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The typical genus of Hydrophilidæ.
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Examples
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I also frequently observed in the lagoon near the Botanic Garden, where the water is only a little less salt than in the sea, a species of hydrophilus, very similar to a water-beetle common in the ditches of England: in the same lake the only shell belonged to a genus generally found in estuaries.
Chapter II 1909
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It said it must try and restore its shattered fifth pair of nerves by a few hydrophilus latipalpus beetles for lunch, and a sleep.
Dot and the Kangaroo Ethel C. Pedley 1889
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I also frequently observed in the lagoon near the Botanic Garden, where the water is only a little less salt than in the sea, a species of hydrophilus, very similar to a water-beetle common in the ditches of England: in the same lake the only shell belonged to
The Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin 1845
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a species of hydrophilus, very similar to a water-beetle common in the ditches of England: in the same lake the only shell belonged to
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a species of hydrophilus, very similar to a water-beetle common in the ditches of England: in the same lake the only shell belonged to
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