(n.) A vessel for heating water; -- hence, a dish or pan.
(n.) A kind of beetle; the cockchafer. The name is also applied to other species; as, the rose chafer.
Example Sentences:
(1) A study was made of certain cations present in hemolymph and alimentary tract tissues of healthy and diseased European chafer larvae and the spores of Bacillus popilliae collected from diseased hemolymph.
Scarab
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Scarabee
Example Sentences:
(1) Residents in east London were warned to keep doors and windows shut as large plumes of smoke drifted from the fire at the warehouse in Scarab Close, near Lower Lea Crossing, Canning Town.
(2) During the blaze in Scarab Close, near Lower Lea Crossing, residents in east London were warned to keep doors and windows shut as large plumes of smoke drifted from the fire.
(3) They won't come cheap, starting at about £1000 for standard Scarab and Spider designs.
(4) Walking alone behind the team on one trip I found myself treading on large, crunchy, dead scarab beetles that had eaten away human flesh: a carpet of the dead feasting on the dead.
(5) The crude drugs emphasized are mantis egg case, wasp's nest, scarab larva, red cicada, snipe fly, horse fly, flying cockroach, Eupolyphaga, Chinese Cantharides and scarab beetle.
(6) Some findings of mythological significance could be demonstrated radiologically, such as the fact that the heart and kidneys had been left in the body, the presence of a scarab, various gold plates and amulets and a fayence-decorated shroud.