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Webster 1913 Edition

Brachyptera

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Bra-chyp′te-ra

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Noun.

pl.

[NL., fr. Gr. [GREEK] short-winged;

βραχύσ

short + [GREEK] feather, wing.]

(Zool.)

A group of Coleoptera having short wings; the rove beetles.