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Christmas beetle

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Christmas beetle
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any of various greenish-gold Australian scarab beetles of the genus Anoplognathus, which are common in summer


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Discussing the grotesque and beautiful insect world, he is more likely to recall the Christmas beetle he kept in a matchbox--reminiscence from his childhood growing up in Reservoir in the forties and fifties.
 
 
 
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