"scarabee" meaning in English

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          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Scarabaeoids",
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            "Beetles",
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          "ref": "1895, F. Marion Crawford, Taquisara",
          "text": "From one of the upper buttonholes dangled a thin gold chain, supporting a bunch of small charms against the evil eye, a little coral horn, a tiny silver hunchback, a miniature gilt bell, and two or three coins of gold and silver, besides an Egyptian scarabee in a gold setting.",
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          "ref": "1882, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast Table",
          "text": "We too, who mock at Israel's golden calf And scoff at Egypt's sacred scarabee, Would have our amulets to clasp and kiss, And flood with rapturous tears, and bear with us To be our dear companions in the dust, Such magic works an image in our souls!",
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          "ref": "1869, Henry Abbey, Stories in Verse",
          "text": "From college to the farm-house where I dwelt I took my books, friends who are never cold, With fragile instruments of chemistry, And cabinets of mineral and rock With limestone encrinites; asterias Old as the mountains, or the sea's white lash Wherewith he smites the shoulders of the shore; Tarentula and scarabee I brought, And, too, I brought my diamond microscope Which magnifies a pin's head to a man's, And gives me sights in water and in air The naturalists have not yet touched upon.",
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        "A beetle"
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        "(archaic) A beetle"
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          "ref": "1895, F. Marion Crawford, Taquisara",
          "text": "From one of the upper buttonholes dangled a thin gold chain, supporting a bunch of small charms against the evil eye, a little coral horn, a tiny silver hunchback, a miniature gilt bell, and two or three coins of gold and silver, besides an Egyptian scarabee in a gold setting.",
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          "ref": "1882, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast Table",
          "text": "We too, who mock at Israel's golden calf And scoff at Egypt's sacred scarabee, Would have our amulets to clasp and kiss, And flood with rapturous tears, and bear with us To be our dear companions in the dust, Such magic works an image in our souls!",
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          "text": "From college to the farm-house where I dwelt I took my books, friends who are never cold, With fragile instruments of chemistry, And cabinets of mineral and rock With limestone encrinites; asterias Old as the mountains, or the sea's white lash Wherewith he smites the shoulders of the shore; Tarentula and scarabee I brought, And, too, I brought my diamond microscope Which magnifies a pin's head to a man's, And gives me sights in water and in air The naturalists have not yet touched upon.",
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        "A beetle"
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        "(archaic) A beetle"
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