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Word: atauchus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scarab of Egypt (Atauchus sacer), for example, Fabre discovered, possesses the instinctive gift of making a perfect sphere of dung for its food and a perfect pear for its larva, even as the bee is born with the gift of making a hexagonal prism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 12, 1949 | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

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