In a corner, the Darkling Beetle rustles in its Cage, its Elytra the same unforgiving white as the great sand-waste call’d ‘Kalahari’ lying north of here […]
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Elytron
//ˈɛlɪtɹɒn//
Synonyms for "elytron" (12 found)
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21 translations across 15 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- èlitre noun (outer covering of insect)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 鞘翅 noun (outer covering of insect)
Czech
1 entries- krovka noun (outer covering of insect)
Finnish
1 entries- peitesiipi noun (outer covering of insect)
French
1 entries- élytre noun (outer covering of insect)
German
2 entries- Elytron noun (outer covering of insect)
- Flügeldecke noun (outer covering of insect)
Greek
1 entries- έλυτρο noun (outer covering of insect)
Hungarian
1 entries- szárnyfedő noun (outer covering of insect)
Italian
1 entries- elitra noun (outer covering of insect)
Japanese
1 entries- 翅鞘 noun (outer covering of insect)
Polish
3 entries- elytry noun (outer covering of insect)
- okrywy noun (outer covering of insect)
- pokrywy noun (outer covering of insect)
Romanian
1 entries- elitră noun (outer covering of insect)
Russian
2 entries- надкры́лье noun (outer covering of insect)
- надкры́лья noun (outer covering of insect)
Spanish
1 entries- élitro noun (outer covering of insect)
Ukrainian
3 entries- елі́тра noun (outer covering of insect)
- надкри́лля noun (outer covering of insect)
- надкрило́ noun (outer covering of insect)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
[…] the elytra covering the hind wings of the firefly lift like a light leather, suppler than any other beetle’s.
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