See Also: scarabee(medicine)
scarabee(dictionary)

escopette (iou) and scarabee (medicine)


escopette (iou)



escopette noun. E19.
[Spanish escopeta (assim. to French escopette from Italian) from Italian schioppetto dim. of schioppo carbine from medieval Latin sclop(p)us harquebus: see -ETTE.]
Hist. A kind of carbine formerly used in Mexico and the southern US.

scarabee (medicine)


scarabee
<zoology> Any one of numerous species of lamellicorn beetles of the genus Scarabaeus, or family Scarabaeidae, especially the sacred, or Egyptian, species (Scarabaeus sacer, and S. Egyptiorum).

Origin: L. Scarabeus; cf. F. Scarabee.

Source: Websters Dictionary