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▪ I. ‖ scopa1 Ent.|skəʊpə|
[L. scōpa, in class. use only in pl. scōpæ twigs, shoots, a broom or brush.]
A bundle or tuft of bristly hairs on the legs of bees, used for collecting pollen; a pollen-brush.
1802Kirby Monogr. Apum Angliæ I. 109 Scopa. This term, which is used by Schrank to denote another part, to which I have given its diminutive [i.e. scopula] as a name, I have adopted to signify the thick coat of hairs which externally covers the posterior tibiæ of many of these insects, by means of which they probably brush the pollen from the flowers. 1840Westwood Introd. Classif. Insects II. 260 The other instruments consist of bundles of hairs, whence they have been termed the scopa or scopula by Mr. Kirby, ‘la brosse’ by the French, and which we may call the pollen brushes.
▪ II. ‖ scopa2 rare.|ˈskopa|
[It.]
An Italian card-game.
1965‘W. Haggard’ Hard Sell iii. 26 There were cafés and men inside them. They were playing scopa. 1977Time 3 Jan. 40/3 Premier Giulio Andreotti's Christmas gift to his staff last week was a single playing card—the seven of diamonds, which in the Italian game of scopa is worth double and thus is considered the luckiest card in the deck. |