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devil's coach-horse
A popular name of the large rove-beetle (Goerius olens), from the rearing and defiant attitude which it assumes when disturbed. The name is sometimes extended to other cock-tail beetles.
1840Westwood in Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. 506 Well known under the name of the Devil's coach horse. 1850Kavanagh Jrnl. in Biog. (1891) 86 Lots of scorpions, devil's coach-horses, and large spiders. 1869Blackmore Lorna D. (1889) 25 This atrocious tale of lies turned up joint by joint before her like a devil's coach-horse. 1881W. E. Norris Matrim. III. iii. 51 One of those little beetles known to children as the devil's coach-horses. |