coleopter

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English

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Noun

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coleopter (plural coleopters)

  1. (zoology) One of the Coleoptera; a beetle.
  2. A type of VTOL aircraft which uses a ducted fan as the primary fuselage of the entire aircraft.
    • 1955 May, “Why You May Fly in a Barrel”, in Popular Science, volume 166, number 5, page 100:
      But the coleopter, with its tubular wing, belongs in a class by itself.

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French coléoptère.

Noun

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coleopter n (plural coleoptere)

  1. beetle

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