coleopter
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]coleopter (plural coleopters)
- (zoology) One of the Coleoptera; a beetle.
- 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.
References
[edit]- “coleopter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French coléoptère.
Noun
[edit]coleopter n (plural coleoptere)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | coleopter | coleopterul | coleoptere | coleopterele | |
| genitive-dative | coleopter | coleopterului | coleoptere | coleopterelor | |
| vocative | coleopterule | coleopterelor | |||