scarabaeus

plural scarabaei · plural scarabaeuses · alternative scarabeus · alternative scarabæus

1. obsoleteObsolete form of scarab.

   What did she mean about the scarabæus too? It was Leo's scarabæus, and had come out of the old coffer that Vincey had left in my rooms nearly one-and-twenty years before.

   1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC