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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An aberrant genus of beetles, the type of the family Hypocephalidæ, represented by one species, H. armatus of Brazil.

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  • That is, the Jewish writers of Abraham material wrote works surprisingly parallel to the BofA and actually used Egyptian papyri similar to the Book of Breathings and hypocephalus which Joseph Smith had in his possession to illustrate the story of Abraham in a very similar way.

    Mormon Stories Podcast Archive 2008

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